Liza
Liza reached its high-water mark in 1973 at number 392, and has been recorded 17,655 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 1,643rd. About 15,000 Lizas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 45.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Liza boys named Liza
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 17,655
- Estimated living today
- 15,000
- Median age today
- 45
- Peak year
- 1973
- Best rank
- 392nd
- Rank in 2025
- 1,643rd
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 17,641 / 14
How old the living Lizas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 17,655 babies given the name since 1880, about 15,000 are alive — 86 in every hundred. Roughly 2,100 of them are children and 970 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1980 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Hebrew
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Lizas
- Liza Minnelli (born 1946)American actress and singer
- Liza Weil (born 1977)American actress
- Liza Marklund (born 1962)Swedish journalist and detective fiction writer
- Liza Koshy (born 1996)American Internet personality
- Liza Soberano (born 1998)Filipino-American actress
- Liza Lapira (born 1981)American actress
- Liza Colón-Zayas (born 1972)American actress
- Liza Snyder (born 1968)American actress
People named Liza with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Liza is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Liza is most concentrated in Vermont (2.9×), New York (2.4×), Texas (2.1×), Connecticut (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1973
The most popular girls’ names the year Liza peaked:
Liza elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Liza | 3,340 | 407th |
| Belgium girls | Liza | 503 | 371st |
| England and Wales girls | Liza | 469 | 1,120th |
| Ireland girls | Liza | 230 | 220th |
| Switzerland girls | Liza | 205 | 548th |
| Scotland girls | Liza | 173 | 254th |
| Norway girls | Liza | 159 | 427th |
| Poland girls | Liza | 123 birth registrations | 349th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Liza: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Liza | 96 | 0.008% | 394th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Liza | 105 | 0.024% | 253rd |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Liza | 3 | 0.005% | 161st |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Liza | 1 | 0.027% | 8th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Liza is most concentrated in Vaud, where 0.03% of children were given it – 52 of them.
Liza: rank by region
In 2024, Liza was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Liza | 839 | 5 |
In 2025, Liza was given 2 times or more in 3 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Łódzkie | Liza | 188 | 2 |
| Mazowieckie | Liza | 326 | 2 |
| Wielkopolskie | Liza | 248 | 2 |
In 2021, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Liza appears in the lists for Province of Antwerp (342nd).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Liza among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Liza | 2,561 | 3,312 |
| Finland girls | Liza | 56 | 83 |
| the Netherlands boys | Liza | 12 | 41 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Liza lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 206 women called Liza were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Girona | Liza | 8 | 0.019 | 2,370 |
| Balears, Illes | Liza | 12 | 0.019 | 2,547 |
| Málaga | Liza | 17 | 0.019 | 2,293 |
| Barcelona | Liza | 52 | 0.017 | 2,492 |
| Madrid | Liza | 47 | 0.013 | 3,111 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Liza | 11 | 0.011 | 4,026 |
Listed in 6 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 46 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Liza against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.