Eliza

Where Eliza comes from

Shortened from Elizabeth.
— Wiktionary's entry for Eliza
  • Hebrew
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1810
    Eliza McCardle Johnson born
    First Lady of the United States from 1865 to 1869
  2. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #85 among girls with 252 babies — the first year on record, and still its best.
  3. 1980
    Eliza Dushku born
    American actress
  4. 2021
    The comeback
    Back to #111 after sinking to #1,198 in 1964.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Hebrew, popular in the 19th century.
Namesakes
  • Eliza Dushku · American actress, born 1980
  • Eliza McCardle Johnson · First Lady of the United States from 1865 to 1869, 1810–1876
  • Eliza Taylor · Australian actress, born 1989
  • Eliza Scanlen · Australian actress, born 1999

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.