Yelyzaveta
The Ukrainian form of Elizabeth, from the Hebrew for "God is my oath". Around 13,000 women in Poland carry it, all of them girls and women, and meeting one is still memorable.
Yelyzaveta Pronunciation
What Yelyzaveta means
Where Yelyzaveta comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Yelyzaveta is the Ukrainian form of a Hebrew name, Elisheva, which meant "God is my oath." The oath sits inside the older word: el, God, joined to sheva, the same root that gives the Hebrew verb for swearing. Ukrainian speakers reshaped the sounds until they reached Yelyzaveta, four syllables that open wide.
The name arrived through the Bible before it settled in Kyiv. Elizabeth, mother of John the Baptist, carried it into Christian use, and from Greek and Church Slavonic liturgy it spread across the East Slavic lands. On a class register in a Polish school today, a girl might appear as Yelyzaveta and answer to Liza among friends.
The same root shows up on the map. Yelysavethrad, now Kropyvnytskyi, was named in the eighteenth century after a fortress dedicated to Saint Elizabeth. So the name belongs to a city as well as to people.
The meaning stays close to the surface. God is my oath, the sense still attached to every girl called Yelyzaveta.
How many people are named Yelyzaveta
1 in 1739 women in Poland is named Yelyzaveta. 12,964 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #330 among female names.
Yelyzaveta's popularity over time
17 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #564 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2016. Still the #330 name among living women, even as it slips to #564 among newborns.
Where Yelyzaveta is most popular
Yelyzaveta is most popular in Lower Silesian, 203% above the national average (13 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Masovian (+117%) and Greater Poland (+36%). It is least common in Lesser Poland and West Pomeranian, 68% and 13% below average respectively.
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Lower Silesian13 girls born+203%
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Masovian21 girls born+117%
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Greater Poland8 girls born+36%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian4 girls born+34%
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Silesian6 girls born−3%
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West Pomeranian2 girls born−13%
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Łódź3 girls born−13%
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Lesser Poland2 girls born−68%
Yelyzaveta as a middle name
Yelyzaveta is a first name for 12,964 women in Poland and a middle name for another 15, a 100/0 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1951st, between Winifred (15) and Yineth (15).
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#1949 Wiara15
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#1950 Winifred15
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#1951 Yelyzaveta15
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#1952 Yineth15
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#1953 Zoey15