Lisabeth
Lisabeth was last recorded in 2018, when 7 babies were given it; 1,265 Americans have been recorded with it between 1938 and 2018 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,100 Americans named Lisabeth and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (87% of everyone recorded); the median is 59 years old and half are between 46 and 68.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lisabeth by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lisabeth?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,258, in 2018; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
61 babies in 1958, the peak
Lisabeth peaked in 1958, when 61 girls were given it, #1,356 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 7 | #13,258 | 4.1 |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,085 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,968 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,593 | 3.8 |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,291 | 2.6 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,295 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,069 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,033 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,497 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,402 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (65)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 6 | #13,048 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,280 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,226 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,118 | 4.5 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,299 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,179 | 4.9 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,210 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,699 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,705 | 8.1 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,853 | 4.5 |
| 1987 | 21 | #4,067 | 12.1 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,460 | 5.2 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,298 | 5.2 |
| 1984 | 20 | #3,932 | 11.9 |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,794 | 9.0 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,392 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 20 | #3,941 | 12.0 |
| 1980 | 19 | #4,076 | 11.4 |
| 1979 | 11 | #5,970 | 6.9 |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,571 | 9.8 |
| 1977 | 18 | #3,992 | 11.7 |
| 1976 | 24 | #3,053 | 16.4 |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,263 | 10.3 |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,342 | 9.5 |
| 1973 | 22 | #3,074 | 15.1 |
| 1972 | 18 | #3,477 | 11.8 |
| 1971 | 17 | #3,731 | 10.2 |
| 1970 | 32 | #2,379 | 18.3 |
| 1969 | 47 | #1,797 | 27.9 |
| 1968 | 27 | #2,394 | 16.5 |
| 1967 | 42 | #1,801 | 25.4 |
| 1966 | 24 | #2,491 | 14.2 |
| 1965 | 45 | #1,682 | 25.5 |
| 1964 | 47 | #1,697 | 24.8 |
| 1963 | 43 | #1,775 | 22.3 |
| 1962 | 44 | #1,719 | 22.4 |
| 1961 | 34 | #2,019 | 16.8 |
| 1960 | 32 | #2,033 | 15.8 |
| 1959 | 41 | #1,732 | 20.3 |
| 1958 | 61 | #1,356 | 30.3 |
| 1957 | 32 | #1,942 | 15.6 |
| 1956 | 37 | #1,751 | 18.4 |
| 1955 | 36 | #1,758 | 18.4 |
| 1954 | 30 | #1,927 | 15.4 |
| 1953 | 23 | #2,212 | 12.2 |
| 1952 | 31 | #1,805 | 16.7 |
| 1951 | 22 | #2,162 | 12.2 |
| 1950 | 19 | #2,303 | 11.1 |
| 1949 | 12 | #3,093 | 7.0 |
| 1948 | 14 | #2,775 | 8.2 |
| 1947 | 21 | #2,169 | 11.8 |
| 1946 | 11 | #3,138 | 7.0 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,325 | 4.5 |
| 1942 | 10 | #3,111 | 7.4 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,696 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lisabeth a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lisabeth has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 65 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lisabeth: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lisabeth, and how old are they?
1,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 87% of the 1,265 Americans ever recorded as Lisabeth. The median Lisabeth alive today is 59 years old; half are between 46 and 68.
The 2020 Census counted 1,292 people named Lisabeth (1,288 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,148 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 10 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 472 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 359 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 192 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 58 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 7 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 7,309 babies since 1880, Lisabeth is the second most given (17% of them). In 2025 none of their 24 babies recorded by SSA was a Lisabeth (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Lisabeth
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 Lisabeth and names like it
- Compare Lisabeth and LisbethBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sLisabeth peaked in 1958.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lisabeth since 1910.
- The top names of 1958The year the most babies were named Lisabeth.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Lisabeth alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.