girls:
17.4k births since 1880
#1127 (80th percentile)
boys:
14 births since 1975
#4572 (0th percentile)
overall:
17.4k births since 1880
#1954 (75th percentile)
The name Liza is the #1,954 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 17,415 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 74.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 74.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,127 (80.3% percentile) for all time with 17,401 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,572 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 14 births since 1975.
Liza has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1975 for boys).
The name Liza has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Liza reached its peak popularity in 1977, achieving the 51.4% percentile (ranked #374) with 303 births per million. The name was most common in 1973, with 333 births per million (ranked 50.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2010, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Liza ranks #827 for girls (12.7% percentile) with 71 births per million, which is 21.4% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Liza reached its peak popularity in 1975, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #656) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1984.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Liza".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Liza", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 22 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Lisa" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Lisa..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Liza. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 53.5% confident that Liza is pronounced as LAI-zuh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LEE-zuh, at 46.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like 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.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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