Meaning not yet researched.
Liza: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 126 in 2025. Its best rank was #345 in 1881.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #345 in 1881; #1,648 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Liza in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,648 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1881, at #345.
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Liza: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 126 girls in 2025. Peak: #345 in 1881 · most girls in one year: 518 (1973).
In 2025, 126 US girls were named Liza, making it the 1,648th most common girls’ name of the year, up 153 places from #1,801 in 2024. That is 14 more than the 112 girls named Liza in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #345, reached in 1881. The most girls given the name in a single year was 518, in 1973. For comparison, it was #1,691 in 2015 and #1,219 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Liza in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 18 babies with the name. In all, 17,655 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 4,272 babies named Liza.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,227 US girls were named Liza; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 138. In 2025 that was about 1 in 12,756 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Liza ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #597 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Elizabeth (1,693,973 babies since 1880), Betty (1,004,857 babies since 1880), Lisa (970,012 babies since 1880) and Isabella (417,454 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Lezah and Lyzah are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch and Latvian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Lezah (16), Lyzah (13).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Liza in the open dataset we use.
Liza is listed as a nickname for Elizabeth.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 42 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 5 | #597 | — |
| Kentucky | 5 | #812 | — |
| Tennessee | 7 | #953 | #1,020 |
| Ohio | 8 | #1,093 | — |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,300 | #1,331 |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,375 | #1,048 |
| New York | 10 | #1,381 | #2,130 |
| Florida | 6 | #2,049 | #2,283 |
| California | 6 | #2,958 | #2,893 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 126 | #1,648 | — | — |
| 2024 | 112 | #1,801 | — | — |
| 2023 | 126 | #1,650 | — | — |
| 2022 | 119 | #1,748 | — | — |
| 2021 | 138 | #1,530 | — | — |
| 2020 | 116 | #1,737 | — | — |
| 2019 | 132 | #1,611 | — | — |
| 2018 | 126 | #1,668 | — | — |
| 2017 | 117 | #1,785 | — | — |
| 2016 | 115 | #1,807 | — | — |
| 2015 | 126 | #1,691 | — | — |
| 2014 | 122 | #1,721 | — | — |
| 2013 | 114 | #1,803 | — | — |
| 2012 | 108 | #1,866 | — | — |
| 2011 | 101 | #1,962 | — | — |
| 2010 | 93 | #2,132 | — | — |
| 2009 | 126 | #1,738 | — | — |
| 2008 | 108 | #1,958 | — | — |
| 2007 | 104 | #1,982 | — | — |
| 2006 | 103 | #1,952 | — | — |
| 2005 | 116 | #1,711 | — | — |
| 2004 | 114 | #1,706 | — | — |
| 2003 | 145 | #1,384 | — | — |
| 2002 | 133 | #1,439 | — | — |
| 2001 | 156 | #1,263 | — | — |
| 2000 | 140 | #1,351 | — | — |
| 1999 | 145 | #1,278 | — | — |
| 1998 | 158 | #1,182 | — | — |
| 1997 | 142 | #1,256 | — | — |
| 1996 | 184 | #1,016 | — | — |
| 1995 | 170 | #1,058 | — | — |
| 1994 | 183 | #1,016 | — | — |
| 1993 | 185 | #1,003 | — | — |
| 1992 | 193 | #990 | — | — |
| 1991 | 224 | #881 | — | — |
| 1990 | 219 | #887 | — | — |
| 1989 | 265 | #745 | — | — |
| 1988 | 242 | #777 | — | — |
| 1987 | 233 | #769 | — | — |
| 1986 | 220 | #775 | — | — |
| 1985 | 242 | #714 | — | — |
| 1984 | 283 | #628 | 5 | #6,940 |
| 1983 | 323 | #564 | — | — |
| 1982 | 393 | #510 | — | — |
| 1981 | 421 | #489 | — | — |
| 1980 | 460 | #462 | — | — |
| 1979 | 448 | #454 | — | — |
| 1978 | 416 | #474 | — | — |
| 1977 | 498 | #411 | — | — |
| 1976 | 432 | #448 | — | — |
| 1975 | 435 | #450 | 9 | #3,819 |
| 1974 | 392 | #460 | — | — |
| 1973 | 518 | #392 | — | — |
| 1972 | 373 | #479 | — | — |
| 1971 | 341 | #537 | — | — |
| 1970 | 410 | #488 | — | — |
| 1969 | 315 | #557 | — | — |
| 1968 | 312 | #549 | — | — |
| 1967 | 317 | #530 | — | — |
| 1966 | 340 | #514 | — | — |
| 1965 | 348 | #509 | — | — |
| 1964 | 287 | #585 | — | — |
| 1963 | 230 | #664 | — | — |
| 1962 | 200 | #732 | — | — |
| 1961 | 210 | #719 | — | — |
| 1960 | 135 | #912 | — | — |
| 1959 | 153 | #831 | — | — |
| 1958 | 113 | #975 | — | — |
| 1957 | 98 | #1,053 | — | — |
| 1956 | 42 | #1,648 | — | — |
| 1955 | 65 | #1,259 | — | — |
| 1954 | 61 | #1,269 | — | — |
| 1953 | 62 | #1,233 | — | — |
| 1952 | 55 | #1,294 | — | — |
| 1951 | 56 | #1,248 | — | — |
| 1950 | 58 | #1,219 | — | — |
| 1949 | 35 | #1,582 | — | — |
| 1948 | 28 | #1,802 | — | — |
| 1947 | 39 | #1,518 | — | — |
| 1946 | 37 | #1,453 | — | — |
| 1945 | 34 | #1,393 | — | — |
| 1944 | 22 | #1,841 | — | — |
| 1943 | 34 | #1,435 | — | — |
| 1942 | 21 | #1,897 | — | — |
| 1941 | 22 | #1,722 | — | — |
| 1940 | 27 | #1,499 | — | — |
| 1939 | 23 | #1,617 | — | — |
| 1938 | 19 | #1,842 | — | — |
| 1937 | 17 | #1,962 | — | — |
| 1936 | 18 | #1,838 | — | — |
| 1935 | 24 | #1,529 | — | — |
| 1934 | 20 | #1,743 | — | — |
| 1933 | 27 | #1,430 | — | — |
| 1932 | 24 | #1,585 | — | — |
| 1931 | 32 | #1,306 | — | — |
| 1930 | 25 | #1,588 | — | — |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,665 | — | — |
| 1928 | 26 | #1,619 | — | — |
| 1927 | 32 | #1,442 | — | — |
| 1926 | 36 | #1,316 | — | — |
| 1925 | 34 | #1,396 | — | — |
| 1924 | 44 | #1,196 | — | — |
| 1923 | 40 | #1,239 | — | — |
| 1922 | 29 | #1,553 | — | — |
| 1921 | 22 | #1,896 | — | — |
| 1920 | 31 | #1,458 | — | — |
| 1919 | 29 | #1,468 | — | — |
| 1918 | 41 | #1,173 | — | — |
| 1917 | 44 | #1,070 | — | — |
| 1916 | 31 | #1,320 | — | — |
| 1915 | 28 | #1,356 | — | — |
| 1914 | 30 | #1,109 | — | — |
| 1913 | 35 | #904 | — | — |
| 1912 | 35 | #855 | — | — |
| 1911 | 32 | #772 | — | — |
| 1910 | 42 | #660 | — | — |
| 1909 | 22 | #883 | — | — |
| 1908 | 23 | #816 | — | — |
| 1907 | 18 | #910 | — | — |
| 1906 | 29 | #684 | — | — |
| 1905 | 21 | #814 | — | — |
| 1904 | 15 | #953 | — | — |
| 1903 | 20 | #775 | — | — |
| 1902 | 30 | #609 | — | — |
| 1901 | 21 | #712 | — | — |
| 1900 | 26 | #716 | — | — |
| 1899 | 31 | #544 | — | — |
| 1898 | 22 | #706 | — | — |
| 1897 | 25 | #622 | — | — |
| 1896 | 27 | #602 | — | — |
| 1895 | 20 | #714 | — | — |
| 1894 | 27 | #565 | — | — |
| 1893 | 23 | #608 | — | — |
| 1892 | 30 | #500 | — | — |
| 1891 | 26 | #511 | — | — |
| 1890 | 40 | #402 | — | — |
| 1889 | 28 | #472 | — | — |
| 1888 | 28 | #475 | — | — |
| 1887 | 26 | #439 | — | — |
| 1886 | 27 | #423 | — | — |
| 1885 | 19 | #494 | — | — |
| 1884 | 18 | #491 | — | — |
| 1883 | 20 | #428 | — | — |
| 1882 | 16 | #470 | — | — |
| 1881 | 23 | #345 | — | — |
| 1880 | 18 | #398 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).