Variant of Eleazar, from Hebrew meaning 'God has helped.'
Eliazar is a variant of the ancient Hebrew name Eliezer (אֱלִיעֶזֶר), composed of El ("God") and ezer ("help"), yielding the meaning "my God has helped" or "God is my help." The name appears repeatedly in the Hebrew Bible, most notably as the name of Abraham's trusted chief servant — the unnamed figure in Genesis 24 who travels to find a wife for Isaac and is traditionally identified as Eliezer by rabbinic tradition — and as the name of one of Moses's sons, marking it as a name of enormous patriarchal and covenantal weight. Eliezer gave rise to the Greek form Lazaros, which became Lazarus in Latin — most famous in the New Testament as the man Jesus raised from the dead in the Gospel of John.
That story so shaped Western imagination that the name became a byword for miraculous resurrection and second chances. The form Eliazar retains the Hebrew texture that Lazarus has lost, giving it currency in Sephardic Jewish communities, in Latin American countries with strong Catholic traditions blended with Semitic name awareness, and in families seeking biblical names that feel less anglicized. In usage today, Eliazar occupies a meaningful niche: it is identifiably ancient and scriptural, carries deep religious gravitas, but remains rare enough to feel distinctive.
Its five syllables — eh-lee-AH-zar — have a liturgical beauty, and the name shortens naturally to Eli, one of the warmest and most popular short names in contemporary use. It is a name carrying millennia of faith and gratitude in its roots.