girls:
65.8k births since 1880
#487 (91st percentile)
boys:
197 births since 1880
#4389 (4th percentile)
overall:
66k births since 1880
#902 (88th percentile)
The name Eliza is the #902 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 66,046 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 88.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 88.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #487 (91.5% percentile) for all time with 65,849 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,389 (4.2% percentile) for all time with 197 births since 1880.
Eliza has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880
The name Eliza has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Eliza reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 88.7% percentile (ranked #107) with 1,385 births per million. The name was most common in 1880, with 2,582 births per million (ranked 61.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1987, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Eliza ranks #113 for girls (88.2% percentile) with 1,343 births per million, which is 52.0% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Eliza reached its peak popularity in 1915, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #499) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1880, with 51 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Eliza ranks #909 for boys (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 7.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Eliza".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Eliza. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 85.0% confident that Eliza is pronounced as ih-LAI-zuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ih-LEE-zuh, at 15.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like IH0 L AY1 Z AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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