Liz

“Variant of Elizabeth — My God is an oath; my God is abundance” — Hebrew origin

Girl's name · #1259 in the US (2025) · Retro

Liz reached #375 in 1961 and has eased to #1259 since. About 10,000 girls have carried it since 1930. In Massachusetts it runs about 8× its national rate. Its center of gravity has moved: strongest in the West in the 1940s and 1950s, strongest in the Northeast today.

Around the world: about 1 in 1,500 girls in Belgium (2025) · about 1 in 1,800 girls in Ireland (2025) · about 1 in 4,200 girls in Switzerland (2024).

Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 10 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Famous Lizes

Liz Truss — Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 2022
Liz Cheney — United States Representative from Wyoming from 2017 to 2023
Liz Sheridan — American actress (1929–2022)
Liz Smith — British actress (1921–2016)
Liz Phair — American musician

In stories & tradition

Liz Allan — Amazing Fantasy · The Amazing Spider-Man
Liz Sherman — Hellboy · Hellboy: Blood and Iron
Liz Shaw — Doctor Who

What Lizes become

Among 815 notable people named Liz:

Entertainers appear 1.56× more often than among typical names — e.g. Liz Sheridan, American actress (1929–2022).

Similar names: Lisa · Joey · Lea · Dina · Lois · Hollis

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