Given name
Eliska
“an honest woman; one who is truthful”
Eliska is used as a given name. One Slavic interpretation is “an honest woman; one who is truthful.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Slavic interpretation is “an honest woman; one who is truthful.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Slavic.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1918. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Eliska through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 221
- 0 boys · 221 girls
- Most popular year
- 2006
- 14 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −48%
- Cooling
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 14 in 2006. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 382 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.
Eliska’s family of names
Eliska has a related form in Elishka. Eliska has a related form in Elyshka. Eliska has a related form in Elyska.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Eliska
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Appears in
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