Liza

Where Liza comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Liza.

  • Vowel-ended
Liza through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #388 among girls, with 18 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1881
    Peak, #338
    23 babies named Liza, its best rank.
  3. 1946
    Liza Minnelli born
    American actress and singer
  4. 1977
    Liza Weil born
    American actress
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given names Eliza and Elizabeth, from Hebrew.
Namesakes
  • Liza Minnelli · American actress and singer, born 1946
  • Liza Weil · American actress, born 1977
  • Liza Marklund · Swedish journalist and detective fiction writer, born 1962
  • Liza Soberano · Filipino and American actress, born 1998
  • Liza Koshy · American Internet personality, born 1996

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.