Entry № 5989 · English origin

Liza Liza — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ LIE-zah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Consecrated to God (Liza Minnelli, EGOT winner)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (English)

A name that means "consecrated to god (liza minnelli, egot winner)".

Liza is the English diminutive of Elizabeth — from the Hebrew Elisheba ("my God is my oath"). Eliza Doolittle is the My Fair Lady heroine — covered separately as Eliza.

Subject of countless musical theater retrospectives.

Consecrated to God.

The name in its native script.

Liza
Transliteration
Liza
Pronunciation
/ ˈlaɪ.zə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Liza stands.

Liza does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Lizas before her.

Real people
Liza Minnelli
American EGOT entertainer.
born 1946
Liza Koshy
American YouTube personality.
born 1996
In fiction
Sally Bowles
Cabaret.
1972

Names connected to Liza.

The number behind Liza.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Liza reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.