as a First Name
Short form of Elizabeth, first used in the 16th century, and popular in the 18th and 19th centuries as an independent given name. It was used by George Bernard Shaw for the main female character, Eliza Dolittle, in his play Pygmalion (1913), which was the basis for the musical and film My Fair Lady.
| 1,409th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 18,915
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 27,494
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- District of Columbia
- has the most people named Eliza per capita
- 2010
- marked the height of its popularity
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