Given name · Ukrainian
Єлизавета
“God is my oath”
Єлизавета (Jelyzavéta) is a feminine given name from Old Church Slavonic, ultimately from Biblical Hebrew. It is used in Ukrainian.
UkrainianWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Êlizaveta.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Єлизавета goes back to Biblical Hebrew אֱלִישֶׁבַע (ʾĕlîšeḇaʿ), meaning “God is my oath.”
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Where it comes from
Єлизавета comes from Old Church Slavonic, and ultimately from Biblical Hebrew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Ukrainian usage, Єлизавета developed from Ἐλισάβετ.
Єлизавета’s family of names
In Ukrainian usage, Єлизавета developed from the Ancient Greek form Ἐλισάβετ. In Ukrainian usage, Єлизавета can be written in the Roman alphabet as Jelyzavéta. In Ukrainian usage, Єлизавета has a transliteration in Êlizaveta.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 8
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Єлизавета
- Yelyzaveta BryzghinaUkrainian sprinterborn 1989
- Yelyzaveta YaskoUkrainian politicianborn 1990
- Yelizaveta TishchenkoRussian volleyball playerborn 1975
- Yelyzaveta KalaninaUkrainian judokaborn 1995
- Yelyzaveta MereshkoUkrainian Paralympic swimmerborn 1992
- Yelyzaveta LytvynenkoUkrainian judokaborn 2004
- Yelyzaveta Hubarevagymnastborn 2004
- Yelyzaveta LuzanAzerbaijani gymnastborn 2003
- Yelyzaveta BohutskaUkrainian politician (born 1964)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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