It's an old Irish name.  All my kids/animals are either Irish or Celtic names.  It's an "okay" name, and not one you would typically use for a name (it's extremely rare, and even I had to wrack my brain when naming my cat).  She took it and then changed the spelling to a horrific spelling...you know... Aleezabeeth instead of Elizabeth.  Not as extreme, but she admitted to me that she took my cat's name for her kid to me and then soaked up all of the attention for "coming up with it on her own".  I was like...what the actual fuck... Edit:  Before you ask, my husband let my cat's name slip one night and she latched onto it hardcore.  She was originally leaning towards something like Garnet or Ruby, completely different.