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Nicknames for Eliza

Liza, Liz, Ellie, Eli, Lizzie, Lilibet, Lizey, Lizzi, Izzy, Elzi, Elizey

Meanings and history of the name Eliza

My oldest daughter is Eliza Jane. I named her after the character in My Fair Lady because I knew my daughter would be spunky and pretty, just like Eliza Doolittle, and she is!

Famous real-life people named Eliza

Eliza Dushku - American actress
Eliza Snow - Mormon poet and wife to Joseph Smith and Brigham Young (Mormon leaders)
Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton- called Eliza or Betsie. Wife of founding father Alexander Hamilton.
Eliza Giles (b. 2012), daughter of Canadian actress Caterina Scorsone

Eliza in song, story & screen

Eliza Doolittle, character in "My Fair Lady"
Eliza Thornberry, character in "The Wild Thornberries"
Eliza, heroine of classic novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Elizabeth Bennett, heroine of "Pride and Prejudice" went by Eliza to friends and neighbors
Eliza Quiner from The Little House series
Eliza Schyuler, the wife of Alexander Hamilton (Hamilton on Broadway)
Eliza Pancakes, character in "The Sims 4"
Eliza Reed, character in Jane Eyre