Female name
When is Elizabeth’s name day?
Ελισάβετ · Elisavet
Main name day
The Prophet Zechariah and Saint Elizabeth
The Greek name Ελισάβετ (Elisavet) is celebrated on 5 September.
Also celebrated
The saints behind the name day
- The Prophet Zechariah and the Righteous Elizabeth1st centuryThe parents of Saint John the Baptist.Zechariah was a priest in Jerusalem in the days of Herod; according to John Chrysostom and other Church Fathers, he was in fact the high priest. He and his wife Elizabeth were childless in old age. While he was burning incense in the temple, an angel announced that he would have a son, John; because he doubted, he was struck mute until the child was born.Read more
- Saint Elizabeth the Wonderworker5th centuryNun from Heraclea in Thrace who became abbess of the monastery of Saint George in Constantinople in the 5th century and is honoured for the healings attributed to her by tradition.Elizabeth was born in Heraclea in Thrace in the 5th century, into a devout family that, according to tradition, had her after years of prayer to Saint Glykeria. Orphaned at fifteen, she gave away her fortune to the poor and freed her household's slaves before leaving for Constantinople.Read more
Variants and other forms
- Other Greek forms and diminutives
- Έλσα, Λίζα
- In Latin letters
- Elisavet, Elisabet
- English equivalents
- Elizabeth
- In Greek
- Ελισάβετ