Given name
Eleftheria
“an independent woman; one who is free”
Eleftheria is used as a given name. One Greek interpretation is “an independent woman; one who is free.”
Original GreekΕλευθερία
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Greek interpretation is “an independent woman; one who is free.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Greek.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1972. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Eleftheria through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 265
- 0 boys · 265 girls
- Most popular year
- 1976
- 13 babies
- 2025
- 7
- #12,266 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 7 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 12,266 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 13 in 1976. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 570 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Eleftheria’s family of names
Eleftheria has a related form in Elefteria. Eleftheria has a related form in Elefterea. Eleftheria has a related form in Eleftereah.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 9
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Elefteriavariant
- Elephteriavariant
- Elepheteriavariant
- Eleftereahvariant
- Eleftereavariant
- Elefteriahvariant
- Elefthereahvariant
- Elefthereavariant
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Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Eleftheria
- Eleftheria EleftheriouGreek Cypriot singerborn 1989
- Eleftheria ArvanitakiGreek folk singerborn 1957
- Eleftheria HatzinikouGreek volleyball playerborn 1978
- Eleftheria PlevritouGreek female water polo playerborn 1997
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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