Liz

given name · Spanish · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Liz is a given name, most frequently recorded in Paraguay, where it is the 14th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Spanish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: The most common of all the various short forms of jElizabeth.

rarermore common
  • CUCuba1 in 26◐
  • UYUruguay1 in 57
  • PYParaguay1 in 72

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈714K ●

across 12 countries

7 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
384 ●

1.1M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 48 ◐

Czechia

Spellings & scripts●

LucieLatin · French●1.1M records
ליזHebrew · Hebrew●8K records
ลิซThai · Thai●17 records
ЛізьCyrillic · Ukrainian●2 records
ΛιντςGreek · Greek●1 records
ᲚიზGeorgian · Georgian●1 records
리즈Hangul · Korean●0 records

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Las in ES Spain, MX Mexico, CU Cuba and 4 more, Lucie in FR France, CA Canada, BE Belgium and 1 more, Leeds in GB United Kingdom, US United States and ליז in DK Denmark, IL Israel.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

The most common of all the various short forms of jElizabeth.

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Liz is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PY Paraguay#14366,92260K rec.——Liz52
GB United Kingdom—276,2899.6K rec.—113Leeds107
CZ Czechia—223,874△181 rec.1 in 48224KLiz22
FR France#97210,975360K rec.1 in 322211KLucie384
PE Peru#192203,358123K rec.—207KLiz72
MX Mexico#559155,64866K rec.—93Las159
US United States—130,15397K rec.1 in 2.6K130KLeeds311
CU Cuba—121,828623 rec.——Las25
AR Argentina#550119,156163K rec.—2.6KLiz76
EC Ecuador—68,832△754 rec.1 in 24669KLiz35
UY Uruguay—46,3583.6K rec.—1Las25
BR Brazil—44,828△13K rec.1 in 4.7K45KLiz135

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Spanish707K40%
  • English595K34%
  • Portuguese297K17%
  • 37K2%
  • French13K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish707,21340%
English595,41534%
Portuguese297,20117%
36,5102%
French13,4401%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Liz is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name727K records spelled Liz23 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, United Kingdom, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Western Frisian

    Also written Lîz, Lïz, Lïż, Líz, Līz

  • a separate given name991 records spelled Liz5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Peru, United Kingdom, Norway

    Also written Lïz, Lîz, L̶̷̲̅i̶̷̲̅z̶̷̲̅, L̶i̶z̶

61 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Liz is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, A diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Consagrada a Dios

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

  • English: the most common of all the various short forms of ELIZABETH .

    as a word

  • In Serbo-Croatian, a lick (act of licking, stroke of the tongue)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • ISO 639-3 language code for Libinza.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

020040060080019401960198020002020664 · 1961

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Liz in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1930–2025
Yearrecords
19306
19327
19336
19367
19376
193915
194013
194125
194234
194322
194422
194528
194643
194749
194840
194935
195022
195130
195225
195328
195429
195574
1956118
1957276
1958538
1959621
1960638
1961664
1962523
1963421
1964348
1965237
1966189
1967133
1968118
1969121
1970102
197193
197279
197380
197462
197548
197652
197739
197848
197954
198061
198163
198261
198358
198464
198557
198657
198756
198862
198972
199065
199182
199283
199370
199474
199562
199654
199781
199868
199964
200072
200162
200282
200370
200486
200596
2006127
2007147
2008120
200978
201068
201180
201287
201372
201464
201568
201684
201773
201879
2019111
2020161
2021107
2022194
2023206
2024169
2025178

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 92 years between 1930–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19201940196019802000Liz Smith, b. 1921Liz Sheridan, b. 1929Liz Torres, b. 1947Liz Tuccillo, b. 1964Liz Cheney, b. 1966Liz Phair, b. 1967Liz Carr, b. 1972Liz Vassey, b. 1972Liz White, b. 1979Liz Hannah, b. 1985
  • Liz Smithb. 1921GBBritish actress (1921–2016)
  • Liz Sheridanb. 1929USAmerican actress (1929–2022)
  • Liz Torresb. 1947USAmerican actress
  • Liz Tuccillob. 1964USAmerican writer and film director
  • Liz Cheneyb. 1966USUnited States Representative from Wyoming from 2017 to 2023
  • Liz Phairb. 1967USAmerican musician
  • Liz Carrb. 1972GBBritish actress, comedian, and disability rights campaigner (born 1972)
  • Liz Vasseyb. 1972USAmerican actress
  • Liz Whiteb. 1979GBEnglish actress
  • Liz Hannahb. 1985USAmerican screenwriter and producer

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 80 sources across 43 countries.

Official registers attesting Liz
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202245K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—44K#606
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)202031K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202023K#1,463
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20244.2K#396
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—3.9K#3,922
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—3.1K#1,029
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20241.3K#1,410
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—1.3K#1,416
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201K#24,895
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010926#26,362
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000702#31,235

Reference works 4

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 782 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Liz?
We estimate roughly 714 thousand people bear Liz (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
In which country does Liz have the most bearers?
Liz is most frequently recorded in Paraguay, where it is most often spelled liz.
How common is Liz compared with other names?
In Paraguay, Liz is the 14th most common given name of 19,021 given names recorded there.
Is Liz a male or female name?
Liz is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Liz mean?
Recorded meaning: The most common of all the various short forms of jElizabeth.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Liz” — the 14th most common given name in Paraguay. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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