Eliza (given name)
Pronunciation | English (British): [ɪˈlaɪzə] English (US): [əˈlaɪzə] |
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Gender | Female |
Origin | |
Language(s) | Hebrew |
Meaning | "pledged to God; joyful" |
Other names | |
Related names | Elisa, Élise, Elizabeth, Elle, Ellie, Lisa, Liza, Elissa, Elza, Aliza |
Eliza is a female given name in English, meaning "pledged to God" or "joyful."
Etymology[edit]
The name first developed as a diminutive of Elizabeth[1] in the 16th century and its use as an independent name started in the 18th century. The name Elizabeth has been around since the Middle Ages, mainly popularised by the French (using the spelling Elisabeth). Elizabeth with a "z" is the typical spelling in English. Elizabeth is found in the Bible (Luke 1:57) as the mother of John the Baptist. Elizabeth became popularised during the late medieval period as a given name, mostly influenced by two saints – St. Elizabeth of Hungary and St. Elizabeth of Portugal. It was brought to England by the French, and the English can be credited with the formation of Eliza as a hypocorism (the French use Élise).[2]
It may also be used as a variant of the Hebrew name Aliza, עַלִיזָה meaning "joyful".[3][4][5]
People with this name[edit]
- Eliza Acton (1799–1859), English food writer and poet
- Eliza Agnew (1807–1883), American Christian missionary
- Eliza Bushyhead Alberty, Cherokee educator and businesswoman
- Eliza Allen Starr (1824–1901), American artist, art critic, teacher and lecturer
- Eliza Crosby Allen (1803-1848), 19th-century American journal editor
- Eliza Frances Andrews (1840–1931), American writer, botanist and teacher
- Eliza Jane Ashley (1917–2020), American cook and author
- Eliza Ashton (1851–1900), Australian journalist, literary critic and social reformer
- Eliza Ashurst Bardonneau, English translator and activist
- Eliza Atkins Gleason (1909–2009), African American librarian
- Eliza Ault-Connell (born 1981), Australian wheelchair racer
- Eliza Banchuk (born 2007), Israeli rhythmic gymnast
- Eliza Barchus (1857–1959), American painter
- Eliza Bennett (born 1992), English actress
- Eliza Bennis (1725–1802), Methodist leader
- Eliza Bent (born 1982), American playwright, performer and journalist
- Eliza Berkeley (1734–1800), English author
- Eliza Białkowska (born 1973), Polish rhythmic gymnast
- Eliza Biscaccianti (1824–1896), American actress
- Eliza Cooper Blaker (1854–1926), American educator
- Eliza Bostock (1817–1898), British promoter of women’s education
- Eliza Jane Gillett Bridgman (1805–1871), American missionary
- Eliza Brightwen (1830–1906), Scottish naturalist
- Eliza Bromley (1784–1807), English novelist and translator
- Eliza Ann Brown (1847–1923), New Zealand activist
- Eliza Brown (1903–1983), American blues singer and recording artist
- Eliza Brown (settler), Australian settler
- Eliza Buceschi (born 1993), Romanian handball player
- Eliza Howard Sims Burd, American philanthropist
- Eliza Mary Burgess (1878–1961), British artist
- Eliza Boardman Burnz (1823–1903), American shorthand inventor and promoter
- Eliza Marian Butler (1885–1959), English scholar of German; linguist and intellectual historian
- Eliza Butterworth (born 1993), British actress
- Eliza Byard (born 1968), American film producer
- Eliza Campbell (born 1995), Australian football player
- Eliza Carthy (born 1975), English folk musician
- Eliza Jane Cate (1812–1884), American author
- Eliza M. Chandler White, American charity work leader
- Eliza Chester, English actress
- Eliza Chulkhurst (1100–34 or 1500–34), conjoined twin
- Eliza Clark, multiple people
- Eliza Clívia (1979–2017), Brazilian singer
- Eliza Dorothea Cobbe, Lady Tuite (1764–1850), Irish author and poet
- Eliza Archard Conner (1838–1912), American journalist, lecturer, feminist
- Eliza Cook (1818–1889), English author and poet
- Eliza Cook (physician) (1856–1947), American physician and suffragist
- Eliza Coupe (born 1981), American actress
- Eliza Courtney (1792–1859), daughter of Charles Grey
- Eliza Cowie (1835–1902), New Zealand church and community worker
- Eliza S. Craven Green (1803–1866), English poet, writer and actress
- Eliza Crisp (1822–1873), American actress
- Eliza Cummings (born 1991), English model
- Eliza Lanesford Cushing (1794–1886), American novelist
- Eliza Davis (1866–1931), English fashion writer and gossip columnist
- Eliza Van Benthuysen Davis (1811–1863), letter writer and wife of Joseph Emory Davis
- Eliza Doddridge (born 1999), Australian cricketer
- Eliza Doolittle (singer) (born 1988), British singer
- Eliza Douglas, American painter
- Eliza Draper (1744–1778), British writer
- Eliza T. Dresang (1941–2014), American professor of Library Science
- Eliza Bisbee Duffey (1838–1898), American painter, author, newspaper editor and printer, spiritualist and feminist
- Eliza Hamilton Dunlop (1796–1880), Irish-Australian poet and songwriter
- Eliza Ann Dupuy (ca. 1814–1880), American author
- Eliza Dushku (born 1980), American actress
- Eliza Edwards (1779–1846), human computer
- Eliza Farnham (1815–1864), American novelist
- Eliza Ware Farrar (1791–1870), American writer
- Eliza Fay (1756–1816), English writer on India
- Eliza Fenwick (1797–1840), English author and children’s writer
- Eliza de Feuillide (1761–1813), English sister-in-law of Jane Austen
- Eliza Ann Fewings (1857–1940), Australian and Wales-based school teacher
- Eliza Field, multiple people
- Eliza Fletcher (1770–1858), English autobiographer and travel writer
- Eliza Flower (1803–1846), British musician and composer
- Eliza Lee Cabot Follen (1787–1860), American writer, editor, abolitionist
- Eliza Forlonge (1784–1859), Australian merino importer
- Eliza Foster, British translator and art writer
- Eliza Bridell Fox (1824–1903), British painter
- Eliza Fraser (c.1798–1858), Scottish woman after whom Fraser Island in Australia is named
- Eliza Gaffney, Australian rower
- Eliza Gamble (1841–1920), American writer
- Eliza Gardiner (1871–1955), American artist
- Eliza Ann Gardner (1831–1922), African-American abolitionist, religious leader and women’s movement leader
- Eliza Garth (born 1954), American concert pianist and recording artist
- Eliza George (1808–1865), American Civil War nurse
- Eliza Gilkyson (born 1950), American musical artist
- Eliza Maria Gordon-Cumming, Scottish aristocrat, horticulturalist and paleontologist
- Eliza Grant, African American midwife
- Eliza Ann Grier (1864–1902), American physician
- Eliza Grigg (born 1996), New Zealand alpine skier
- Eliza Griswold (born 1973), American writer
- Eliza Gutch (1840–1931), English author
- Eliza Hall (1847–1916), Australian philanthropist
- Eliza Calvert Hall (1856–1935), American author and suffragist
- Elizabeth "Eliza" Schuyler Hamilton (1757–1854), American philanthropist and wife of United States Founding Father Alexander Hamilton
- Eliza Hamrick, American politician
- Eliza Maria Harvey (1838–1903), Canadian dairy farmer
- Eliza Marsden Hassall (1834–1917), lay leader of the Anglican Church
- Eliza Haycraft (1820–1871), American brothel owner and philanthropist
- Eliza Hayley, English translator and essayist
- Eliza Haywood (c. 1693–1756), English novelist and painter
- Eliza Putnam Heaton (1860–1919), American journalist, editor
- Eliza Parks Hegan (1861–1917), Canadian nurse
- Eliza Hendricks (1823–1903), Second Lady of the United States
- Eliza Edmunds Hewitt (1851–1920), American hymn writer and teacher
- Eliza Trask Hill (1840–1908), American activist, journalist, philanthropist
- Eliza Hittman (born 1979), American film director
- Eliza Hamilton Holly (1799–1859), seventh child and second daughter of Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton
- Eliza Howland (1835–1917), American author
- Eliza Humphreys (1850–1938), Scottish novelist
- Eliza Hynes (born 1992), Australian rules footballer and volleyball player
- Eliza Illiard (1905–1969), German actress
- Eliza Buckley Ingalls (1848–1918), American temperance activist
- Eliza James (1855–1927), English watercress grower and entrepreneur
- Eliza James (footballer) (1855–1927), Australian rules footballer
- Eliza Catherine Jelly, English bryozoologist
- Eliza Ann Jewett, American real-estate investor
- Eliza Joenck (born 1982), Brazilian model and actress
- Eliza McCardle Johnson (1810–1876), First Lady of the United States (1865–1869
- Eliza Griffin Johnston, American wildflower painter and diarist
- Eliza Grew Jones (1803–1838), Christian missionary and lexicographer
- Eliza Jumel (1775–1865), American socialite
- Eliza Junor (1804–1861), Scotswoman of mixed race who was the daughter of a former enslaver
- Eliza Keil, New Zealand musical artist
- Eliza D. Keith (1854–1939), American educator, suffragist, journalist
- Eliza Kellas (1864–1943), American educator
- Eliza Hall Kendrick, American professor
- Eliza Kent (1760–1810), British traveler and writer
- Eliza Kirk (1812–1856), Irish sculptor
- Eliza Lawrence (1935–2016), Canadian politician
- Eliza Lee (1792–1864), American author
- Eliza Ellen Leonard, American medical missionary
- Eliza Leslie (1787–1858), American author of popular cookbooks
- Eliza Anne Leslie-Melville (1829–1919), English painter
- Eliza Lewis, Indian voice actress
- Eliza Lynn Linton (1822–1898), English novelist and journalist
- Eliza Lo Chin (born 1967), American internist
- Eliza Logan (1827–1872), American actress
- Eliza Lucas (1722–1799), American planter and agriculturalist
- Eliza Lynch (1833–1886), Irish woman; First Lady of Paraguay
- Eliza Macauley (1785–1837), British actress and campaigner
- Eliza Mackenzie (1816–1892), Scottish nurse superintendent
- Eliza Manningham-Buller (born 1948), former director general of MI5
- Eliza Kirkham Mathews (1772–1802), British novelist and poet
- Eliza McCartney (born 1996), New Zealand pole vaulter
- Eliza Ann McIntosh Reid (1841–1926), Canadian churchworker and clubwoman
- Eliza Jane McKissack (1828–1900), American music educator
- Eliza McLamb, American indie rock musician
- Eliza McNamara (born 2002), Australian rules footballer
- Eliza McNitt, American writer art director
- Eliza Gratia Campbell Miner, American artist
- Eliza Monroe Hay (1786–1840), American socialite and acting First Lady
- Eliza F. Morris (1821–1874), English hymnwriter
- Eliza Happy Morton (1852–1916), American author and educator
- Eliza Maria Mosher (1846–1928), American physician, educator, medical writer, inventor
- Eliza Bland Smith Erskine Norton, British poet, playwright and author
- Eliza O'Flaherty (1818–1882) Australian writer and stage actress
- Eliza Orzeszkowa (1841–1910), Polish writer nominated for the Nobel prize
- Eliza Ann Otis (1833–1904), American poet, journalist and philanthropist
- Eliza Henderson Boardman Otis (1796–1873), American novelist
- Eliza Hall Nutt Parsley (1842–1920), American philanthropist and school founder
- Eliza A. Pittsinger (1837–1908), American poet
- Eliza Jane Pratt (1902–1981), American politician
- Eliza Ridgely (1803–1867), American heiress and socialite
- Eliza McHatton Ripley, American civil war era author
- Eliza Sam (born 1984), Canadian actress based in Hong Kong
- Eliza Scudder (1821-1896), American hymnwriter
- Eliza Seymour Lee (1800–1874), American pastry chef and restaurateur
- Eliza Doyle Smith, American songwriter
- Eliza Kennedy Smith (1889–1964), American suffragist, civic activist and government reformer
- Eliza R. Snow (1804–1887), American religious leader and poet
- Eliza Soutsou (1837–1887), Greek writer and translator
- Eliza Hart Spalding (1807–1851), American missionary
- Eliza Fanny Staveley (1831–1903), British entomologist and author
- Eliza Daniel Stewart (1816–1908), American early temperance movement leader
- Eliza Read Sunderland (1839–1910), American writer, educator, lecturer, women's rights advocate
- Eliza Taylor-Cotter (born 1989), Australian actress
- Elīza Tīruma (born 1990), Latvian luger
- Eliza Townsend (1788–1854), American poet
- Eliza Vozemberg (born 1956), Greek lawyer and politician
- Eliza Wigham (1820–1899), Scottish activist
- Eliza Maria Willoughby, Lady Middleton, British poet
- Eliza Ann Youmans (1826–1914), American botanist
- Eliza Mazzucato Young (1846–1937), American composer and musician
Fictional characters[edit]
Characters in literary and screen works known solely as Eliza include:
- Eliza (Uncle Tom's Cabin), a slave from Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Eliza (Stephenson character), a socialite from Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle of novels
- Eliza, the wife in the Eliza series of novels by Barry Pain
- Eliza, a ghost child in short film Tormented
- Eliza, love interest of Faust VIII in the manga Shaman King
- Eliza, a female narcoleptic vampire from the Tekken series
- Eliza (Real name Neferu), a singer, model, and diva from Skullgirls
Characters that have the first name Eliza and a known last name include:
- Elizabeth "Eliza" Bennet in the novel Pride and Prejudice
- Elizabeth "Eliza" Doolittle in the play Pygmalion (played by Mrs. Patrick Campbell) and the musical inspired by it, My Fair Lady (played on stage by Julie Andrews and in the film by Audrey Hepburn)
- Eliza and Neil was a second boss in Fantastic Parodius and Otomedius.
- Eliza Fletcher, a character in the Phineas and Ferb episode My Fair Goalie who was inspired by Eliza Doolittle.
- Eliza Thornberry, voiced by Lacey Chabert in The Wild Thornberrys
- Eliza Makepeace, one of the main characters in The Forgotten Garden, from Australian author Kate Morton
- Eliza Danvers, Kara Danvers/Supergirl's foster mother in Supergirl, played by Helen Slater
- Eliza Cohen, a female FBI SWAT operator from Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
- Eliza Fisher, a main character debuting in the second and final season of Siren in which she is a blonde mermaid
- Eliza Cassan, one of the news reporters seen in the Deus Ex videogame saga.
- Eliza Dooley, a main character of the tv series Selfie
- Eliza Aitan, police department lead detective in Workaholic