Elisabet
Elisabet was given to 11 girls in 2025, #9,023 among girls’ names; 1,520 Americans have been recorded with it since 1961 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,480 Americans named Elisabet and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 18 and 41.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Elisabet by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Elisabet mean?
Wiktionary, Finnish section
Elisabet is “a female given name” Its etymology gives the sense “my God is an oath” (literally).
From Swedish Elisabet, equivalent to English Elizabeth, ultimately from Ancient Greek Ἐλισάβετ (Elisábet), from Biblical Hebrew אֱלִישֶׁבַע (ʾĕlîšeḇaʿ, literally “my God is an oath”).
/ˈelisɑbet/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Finnish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Elisabet?
#9,023 among girls’ names, 2025
Elisabet fell from #5,709 in 2015 to #9,023 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 12.9 to 6.8 per million.
51 babies in 1989, the peak
Elisabet peaked in 1989, when 51 girls were given it, #2,306 among girls’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 22% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,023 | 6.8 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,694 | 8.6 |
| 2023 | 22 | #5,600 | 13.7 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,609 | 5.5 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,767 | 10.4 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,543 | 7.4 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,499 | 10.7 |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,838 | 12.3 |
| 2017 | 23 | #5,554 | 13.3 |
| 2016 | 17 | #7,001 | 9.6 |
Every recorded year (61)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 23 | #5,709 | 12.9 |
| 2014 | 28 | #4,932 | 15.7 |
| 2013 | 25 | #5,362 | 14.2 |
| 2012 | 23 | #5,758 | 13.1 |
| 2011 | 34 | #4,277 | 19.3 |
| 2010 | 25 | #5,470 | 14.1 |
| 2009 | 32 | #4,598 | 17.4 |
| 2008 | 41 | #3,884 | 21.7 |
| 2007 | 39 | #4,001 | 20.3 |
| 2006 | 40 | #3,812 | 21.0 |
| 2005 | 29 | #4,614 | 15.7 |
| 2004 | 36 | #3,922 | 19.6 |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,385 | 9.9 |
| 2002 | 32 | #4,009 | 17.8 |
| 2001 | 21 | #5,420 | 11.7 |
| 2000 | 36 | #3,605 | 19.8 |
| 1999 | 27 | #4,229 | 15.2 |
| 1998 | 37 | #3,313 | 20.9 |
| 1997 | 23 | #4,554 | 13.2 |
| 1996 | 26 | #4,086 | 14.8 |
| 1995 | 31 | #3,512 | 17.6 |
| 1994 | 45 | #2,712 | 25.2 |
| 1993 | 39 | #3,004 | 21.6 |
| 1992 | 27 | #3,893 | 14.6 |
| 1991 | 45 | #2,667 | 24.0 |
| 1990 | 40 | #2,861 | 21.1 |
| 1989 | 51 | #2,306 | 27.7 |
| 1988 | 21 | #4,209 | 11.8 |
| 1987 | 24 | #3,648 | 13.8 |
| 1986 | 30 | #3,072 | 17.5 |
| 1985 | 34 | #2,755 | 19.8 |
| 1984 | 30 | #2,936 | 17.8 |
| 1983 | 34 | #2,606 | 20.4 |
| 1982 | 29 | #3,036 | 17.1 |
| 1981 | 31 | #2,867 | 18.6 |
| 1980 | 43 | #2,291 | 25.9 |
| 1979 | 34 | #2,634 | 21.2 |
| 1978 | 18 | #3,957 | 11.8 |
| 1977 | 25 | #3,102 | 16.3 |
| 1976 | 16 | #4,008 | 10.9 |
| 1975 | 19 | #3,539 | 13.0 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,405 | 5.5 |
| 1973 | 16 | #3,831 | 11.0 |
| 1972 | 16 | #3,760 | 10.5 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,621 | 7.2 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,537 | 4.0 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,242 | 3.6 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,599 | 5.3 |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,886 | 2.6 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,451 | 3.6 |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,638 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Elisabet a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Elisabet has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 61 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Elisabet: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Elisabet, and how old are they?
1,480 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,520 Americans ever recorded as Elisabet. The median Elisabet alive today is 30 years old; half are between 18 and 41.
The 2020 Census counted 1,599 people named Elisabet (1,594 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,410 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Elisabet rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 18 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 216 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 522 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 488 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 238 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Elisabet born?
The states with the most babies named Elisabet are California, Texas and New York, with 94% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 365 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Texas | 155 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New York | 25 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Florida | 22 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 12 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Elisabet is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Elisabet is most over-represented in California: since 1961 it was given 1.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Elisabet with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Elisabet
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Elisabet and names like it
- Compare Elisabet and DamaraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sElisabet peaked in 1989.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Elisabet since 1910.
- Finnish namesWiktionary’s origin for Elisabet: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Elisabet.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Elisabet alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with EMost given first.