Lizabeth
Lizabeth was given to 14 girls in 2025, #7,714 among girls’ names; 5,619 Americans have been recorded with it since 1907 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,780 Americans named Lizabeth and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (85% of everyone recorded); the median is 56 years old and half are between 34 and 68.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lizabeth by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Lizabeth mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Lizabeth is “a female given name from Hebrew.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Lizabeth?
#7,714 among girls’ names, 2025
Lizabeth rose from #8,731 in 2015 to #7,714 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 7.3 to 8.7 per million.
189 babies in 1958, the peak
Lizabeth peaked in 1958, when 189 girls were given it, #717 among girls’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,714 | 8.7 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,440 | 9.3 |
| 2023 | 5 | #16,611 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,393 | 6.7 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,494 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,926 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,884 | 7.1 |
| 2018 | 22 | #5,705 | 12.9 |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,697 | 10.4 |
| 2016 | 31 | #4,593 | 17.5 |
Every recorded year (109)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 13 | #8,731 | 7.3 |
| 2014 | 34 | #4,319 | 19.0 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,151 | 12.0 |
| 2012 | 32 | #4,558 | 18.2 |
| 2011 | 34 | #4,314 | 19.3 |
| 2010 | 32 | #4,554 | 18.0 |
| 2009 | 23 | #6,012 | 12.5 |
| 2008 | 39 | #4,055 | 20.6 |
| 2007 | 40 | #3,954 | 20.8 |
| 2006 | 36 | #4,118 | 18.9 |
| 2005 | 46 | #3,345 | 24.9 |
| 2004 | 50 | #3,105 | 27.2 |
| 2003 | 70 | #2,382 | 38.3 |
| 2002 | 67 | #2,395 | 37.3 |
| 2001 | 47 | #3,026 | 26.1 |
| 2000 | 42 | #3,243 | 23.1 |
| 1999 | 50 | #2,764 | 28.2 |
| 1998 | 42 | #3,046 | 23.8 |
| 1997 | 49 | #2,607 | 28.1 |
| 1996 | 53 | #2,437 | 30.2 |
| 1995 | 44 | #2,757 | 25.0 |
| 1994 | 72 | #1,958 | 40.3 |
| 1993 | 75 | #1,888 | 41.5 |
| 1992 | 51 | #2,496 | 27.7 |
| 1991 | 72 | #1,941 | 38.4 |
| 1990 | 54 | #2,327 | 28.4 |
| 1989 | 66 | #1,947 | 35.8 |
| 1988 | 52 | #2,195 | 29.2 |
| 1987 | 65 | #1,802 | 37.4 |
| 1986 | 59 | #1,897 | 34.4 |
| 1985 | 64 | #1,775 | 37.2 |
| 1984 | 53 | #1,949 | 31.5 |
| 1983 | 53 | #1,941 | 31.7 |
| 1982 | 51 | #2,041 | 30.1 |
| 1981 | 60 | #1,837 | 36.0 |
| 1980 | 72 | #1,618 | 43.4 |
| 1979 | 59 | #1,823 | 36.8 |
| 1978 | 60 | #1,742 | 39.2 |
| 1977 | 50 | #1,965 | 32.6 |
| 1976 | 54 | #1,761 | 36.9 |
| 1975 | 42 | #2,083 | 28.8 |
| 1974 | 55 | #1,676 | 37.5 |
| 1973 | 76 | #1,336 | 52.1 |
| 1972 | 54 | #1,661 | 35.5 |
| 1971 | 74 | #1,421 | 44.5 |
| 1970 | 87 | #1,266 | 49.8 |
| 1969 | 98 | #1,121 | 58.1 |
| 1968 | 77 | #1,254 | 46.9 |
| 1967 | 96 | #1,064 | 58.1 |
| 1966 | 125 | #902 | 73.9 |
| 1965 | 121 | #919 | 68.5 |
| 1964 | 103 | #1,075 | 54.4 |
| 1963 | 109 | #1,024 | 56.5 |
| 1962 | 116 | #999 | 59.0 |
| 1961 | 147 | #884 | 72.8 |
| 1960 | 137 | #901 | 67.8 |
| 1959 | 138 | #886 | 68.2 |
| 1958 | 189 | #717 | 94.0 |
| 1957 | 136 | #874 | 66.5 |
| 1956 | 135 | #858 | 67.2 |
| 1955 | 132 | #845 | 67.5 |
| 1954 | 129 | #828 | 66.4 |
| 1953 | 139 | #777 | 73.9 |
| 1952 | 128 | #801 | 69.0 |
| 1951 | 97 | #941 | 53.9 |
| 1950 | 102 | #880 | 59.5 |
| 1949 | 106 | #856 | 62.0 |
| 1948 | 85 | #942 | 50.1 |
| 1947 | 78 | #1,004 | 44.0 |
| 1946 | 52 | #1,200 | 33.1 |
| 1945 | 20 | #1,914 | 15.3 |
| 1944 | 14 | #2,467 | 10.5 |
| 1943 | 7 | #4,021 | 5.0 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,953 | 5.2 |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,418 | 6.6 |
| 1940 | 9 | #3,102 | 7.9 |
| 1939 | 11 | #2,680 | 10.0 |
| 1938 | 13 | #2,399 | 11.8 |
| 1937 | 17 | #1,963 | 16.0 |
| 1936 | 16 | #1,988 | 15.4 |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,659 | 10.5 |
| 1934 | 16 | #2,047 | 15.3 |
| 1933 | 17 | #1,940 | 16.9 |
| 1932 | 10 | #2,952 | 9.4 |
| 1931 | 25 | #1,528 | 23.5 |
| 1930 | 13 | #2,496 | 11.5 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,885 | 6.3 |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,617 | 6.9 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,607 | 5.1 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,523 | 4.0 |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,535 | 7.5 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,551 | 4.1 |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,485 | 7.5 |
| 1919 | 7 | #4,066 | 6.2 |
| 1918 | 7 | #4,093 | 6.0 |
| 1916 | 6 | #4,175 | 5.7 |
| 1915 | 6 | #4,044 | 6.1 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,466 | 8.0 |
| 1907 | 6 | #1,959 | 18.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lizabeth a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lizabeth has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 109 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lizabeth: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lizabeth, and how old are they?
4,780 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 85% of the 5,619 Americans ever recorded as Lizabeth. The median Lizabeth alive today is 56 years old; half are between 34 and 68.
The 2020 Census counted 4,901 people named Lizabeth (4,900 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,937 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 66 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,780 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,110 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 918 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 691 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 217 |
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 Lizabeth born?
The states with the most babies named Lizabeth are California, New York and Texas, with 56% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 673 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| New York | 419 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Texas | 299 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 214 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 188 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 159 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 145 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New Jersey | 71 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Wisconsin | 57 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Indiana | 47 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Lizabeth is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lizabeth is most over-represented in California: since 1910 it was given 1.2 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 Lizabeth with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 31,631 babies since 1880, Lizabeth is the second most given (18% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 185 babies (7.6%), again the second most given.
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 Lizabeth
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 Lizabeth and names like it
- Compare Lizabeth and LizbethBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sLizabeth peaked in 1958.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lizabeth since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Lizabeth: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1958The year the most babies were named Lizabeth.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Lizabeth alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.