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Meaning of the nameLiz

Liz and Lis are female names with similar spellings: Liz is a short form of Elizabeth, and Lis matches the Portuguese word lis, "lily".

Meaning

“short form of Elizabeth, "my God is an oath"”

Source: Behind the Name: Liz · Behind the Name: Elizabeth

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People (2022)
44,828
Rank in Brazil
#606
Median age
2 years
2010 Census
3,894
people

Liz in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Liz, by the decade they were born. In the chart, 70 = the 1970s and 20+ = 2020 to 2022. The largest group was born in 2020 to 2022 (31,452 people).

44,322 women 506 men

Source: IBGE, 2022 Demographic Census, Nomes no Brasil. The census counts the first name of people alive in 2022; small counts are not published, and the first group covers everyone born before 1940. How to read these data.

Where the name Liz is most common

States with the highest share of people named Liz in the population, in the 2022 Census.

  1. Distrito Federal 0.043%
  2. Espírito Santo 0.039%
  3. Mato Grosso do Sul 0.036%
  4. Bahia 0.033%
  5. Roraima 0.029%
All states
StatePeople% of population
São Paulo10,1860.023%
Minas Gerais5,2520.026%
Bahia4,7230.033%
Rio de Janeiro4,1020.026%
Paraná2,0510.018%
Goiás1,9500.028%
Espírito Santo1,4880.039%
Ceará1,4780.017%
Santa Catarina1,4190.019%
Distrito Federal1,2240.043%
Maranhão1,1270.017%
Pernambuco1,1210.012%
Mato Grosso do Sul1,0030.036%
Rio Grande do Sul9910.009%
Pará8850.011%
Rio Grande do Norte8230.025%
Mato Grosso7240.020%
Amazonas6750.017%
Alagoas6720.022%
Paraíba6610.017%
Piauí5960.018%
Sergipe5350.024%
Tocantins4220.028%
Rondônia2620.017%
Acre1990.024%
Roraima1860.029%
Amapá730.010%

States with fewer than 15 people with the name are not shown: IBGE does not publish those counts.

About the name Liz

Liz is a short form of Elizabeth, a name of Hebrew origin that Behind the Name explains as "my God is an oath", from ʾel, "God", and shavaʿ, "oath". Lis matches the Portuguese word lis, "lily", which Wiktionary gives as a borrowing from French lis; the Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil (Dictionary of Names in Use in Brazil) lists Lis among the spelling variants of Liz. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 44,828 people named Liz and 18,155 named Lis. Both spellings are almost always female, and the great majority of the records are of people born from 2010 onward.

Spelling with a final Z, which Behind the Name gives as a short form of Elizabeth.

Other spellings of Liz

SpellingPeople (2022)
Liz44,828
Lis18,155

Sources

  1. Behind the Name: Liz · behindthename.com · meaning
  2. Behind the Name: Elizabeth · behindthename.com · meaning
  3. Wiktionary: Elizabeth · en.wiktionary.org · origin
  4. Wiktionary: Liz · en.wiktionary.org · origin
  5. Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Liz · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · spelling

Questions about the name Liz

What does the name Liz mean?

Liz means “short form of Elizabeth, "my God is an oath"”, according to Behind the Name.

How many people are named Liz in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 44,828 people with the first name Liz, which ranks it number 606 among the country's names. The largest group was born in 2020 to 2022.

Is Liz a boy's or a girl's name?

Liz is a female name: in the 2022 Census, 44,322 women and 506 men had this name.

What is the origin of the name Liz?

Liz is a name of Hebrew origin. The sources are listed at the end of the page.

In which Brazilian state is Liz most common?

Proportionally, in Distrito Federal: 0.043% of the state's population is named Liz (1,224 people), according to the 2022 Census.

What are the other spellings of Liz?

Lis. IBGE counts each spelling separately.

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