In 2025, 56 US girls were named Elyza, making it the 2,967th most common girls’ name of the year, down 324 places from #2,643 in 2024. That is 10 fewer than the 66 girls named Elyza in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,263, reached in 2020. That year also had the most girls given the name: 79. For comparison, it was #2,658 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Elyza in 36 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1988 with 6 babies. In all, 1,349 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 571 babies named Elyza.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 648 US girls were named Elyza; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 79. In 2025 that was about 1 in 28,701 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Elyza ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #2,467 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Eliza (70,771 babies since 1880), Elisa (47,804 babies since 1880) and Elyssa (7,272 babies since 1880).