Primarily a girl's name · 100% girls
Origin: GreekEliza is a female given name in English, meaning "pledged to God" or "joyful."
From Wikipedia
In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Eliza yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.
Eliza ranked 85 in 1880 and did not reach its highest birth count until 2021 — 141 years apart, the widest such gap in this batch. It has grown 44% across the decade to 2,303 births at rank 118, so the revival is ongoing rather than finished. Cumulative total 68,370. The bearers are heavily nineteenth-century and heavily indirect: Frances Hodgson Burnett, born 1849, and Gene Tierney, born 1920, both carried Eliza second; Elisa Bonaparte, born 1777, is spelled differently; Eliza McCardle Johnson, born 1810, was a First Lady. Hamilton, which put an Eliza centre stage from 2015, is nowhere in the file despite lining up neatly with the curve.
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Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880 | 252 | #85 |
| 1881 | 238 | #91 |
| 1882 | 280 | #92 |
| 1883 | 274 | #95 |
| 1884 | 280 | #101 |
| 1885 | 300 | #101 |
| 1886 | 287 | #109 |
| 1887 | 290 | #106 |
| 1888 | 343 | #110 |
| 1889 | 307 | #126 |
| 1890 | 297 | #132 |
| 1891 | 280 | #130 |
| 1892 | 285 | #144 |
| 1893 | 272 | #148 |
| 1894 | 297 | #146 |
| 1895 | 273 | #159 |
| 1896 | 260 | #167 |
| 1897 | 244 | #175 |
| 1898 | 259 | #181 |
| 1899 | 256 | #171 |
| 1900 | 335 | #166 |
| 1901 | 207 | #198 |
| 1902 | 249 | #184 |
| 1903 | 247 | #186 |
| 1904 | 204 | #212 |
| 1905 | 222 | #204 |
| 1906 | 209 | #217 |
| 1907 | 232 | #217 |
| 1908 | 243 | #221 |
| 1909 | 249 | #226 |
| 1910 | 273 | #234 |
| 1911 | 258 | #244 |
| 1912 | 297 | #260 |
| 1913 | 315 | #260 |
| 1914 | 311 | #296 |
| 1915 | 356 | #313 |
| 1916 | 328 | #342 |
| 1917 | 377 | #316 |
| 1918 | 386 | #329 |
| 1919 | 388 | #320 |
| 1920 | 392 | #327 |
| 1921 | 352 | #350 |
| 1922 | 361 | #344 |
| 1923 | 333 | #365 |
| 1924 | 359 | #363 |
| 1925 | 335 | #375 |
| 1926 | 311 | #389 |
| 1927 | 286 | #404 |
| 1928 | 239 | #439 |
| 1929 | 259 | #411 |
| 1930 | 246 | #423 |
| 1931 | 205 | #449 |
| 1932 | 238 | #426 |
| 1933 | 197 | #468 |
| 1934 | 175 | #483 |
| 1935 | 158 | #507 |
| 1936 | 146 | #538 |
| 1937 | 132 | #585 |
| 1938 | 168 | #519 |
| 1939 | 152 | #539 |
| 1940 | 148 | #573 |
| 1941 | 146 | #579 |
| 1942 | 151 | #606 |
| 1943 | 138 | #646 |
| 1944 | 134 | #633 |
| 1945 | 160 | #578 |
| 1946 | 133 | #700 |
| 1947 | 118 | #805 |
| 1948 | 119 | #789 |
| 1949 | 144 | #707 |
| 1950 | 122 | #786 |
| 1951 | 129 | #780 |
| 1952 | 102 | #915 |
| 1953 | 98 | #956 |
| 1954 | 87 | #1,054 |
| 1955 | 121 | #885 |
| 1956 | 106 | #992 |
| 1957 | 115 | #966 |
| 1958 | 91 | #1,106 |
| 1959 | 86 | #1,152 |
| 1960 | 100 | #1,076 |
| 1961 | 91 | #1,156 |
| 1962 | 93 | #1,127 |
| 1963 | 97 | #1,106 |
| 1964 | 85 | #1,198 |
| 1965 | 96 | #1,070 |
| 1966 | 110 | #975 |
| 1967 | 101 | #1,025 |
| 1968 | 111 | #993 |
| 1969 | 123 | #965 |
| 1970 | 157 | #858 |
| 1971 | 115 | #1,048 |
| 1972 | 146 | #874 |
| 1973 | 154 | #844 |
| 1974 | 141 | #901 |
| 1975 | 147 | #898 |
| 1976 | 198 | #741 |
| 1977 | 223 | #700 |
| 1978 | 203 | #758 |
| 1979 | 243 | #696 |
| 1980 | 275 | #658 |
| 1981 | 277 | #641 |
| 1982 | 300 | #599 |
| 1983 | 280 | #619 |
| 1984 | 244 | #688 |
| 1985 | 242 | #712 |
| 1986 | 231 | #752 |
| 1987 | 293 | #643 |
| 1988 | 329 | #609 |
| 1989 | 303 | #673 |
| 1990 | 424 | #556 |
| 1991 | 385 | #592 |
| 1992 | 339 | #660 |
| 1993 | 403 | #582 |
| 1994 | 379 | #594 |
| 1995 | 506 | #488 |
| 1996 | 539 | #466 |
| 1997 | 570 | #446 |
| 1998 | 573 | #449 |
| 1999 | 631 | #435 |
| 2000 | 759 | #379 |
| 2001 | 806 | #369 |
| 2002 | 830 | #359 |
| 2003 | 944 | #334 |
| 2004 | 991 | #320 |
| 2005 | 1,046 | #305 |
| 2006 | 1,015 | #326 |
| 2007 | 1,007 | #333 |
| 2008 | 1,028 | #326 |
| 2009 | 1,182 | #278 |
| 2010 | 1,310 | #242 |
| 2011 | 1,260 | #255 |
| 2012 | 1,420 | #223 |
| 2013 | 1,621 | #201 |
| 2014 | 1,604 | #212 |
| 2015 | 1,835 | #175 |
| 2016 | 1,867 | #174 |
| 2017 | 2,084 | #140 |
| 2018 | 2,265 | #131 |
| 2019 | 2,454 | #119 |
| 2020 | 2,349 | #115 |
| 2021 | 2,481 | #111 |
| 2022 | 2,345 | #121 |
| 2023 | 2,358 | #116 |
| 2024 | 2,303 | #118 |
