Lizzie
Lizzie was given to 87 girls in 2025, #2,145 among girls’ names; 39,640 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,430 Americans named Lizzie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (19% of everyone recorded); the median is 68 years old and half are between 30 and 80.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lizzie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Lizzie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Lizzie is “a diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth.”
From Liz + -ie.
/ˈlɪzi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Lizzie?
#2,145 among girls’ names, 2025
Lizzie rose from #2,578 in 2015 to #2,145 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 39.2 to 54.1 per million.
814 babies in 1919, the peak
Lizzie peaked in 1919, when 814 babies were given it (809 girls, #219 among girls’ names). The 87 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 87 | #2,145 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 79 | #2,339 | 0.05 |
| 2023 | 95 | #2,058 | 0.06 |
| 2022 | 74 | #2,457 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 83 | #2,243 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 66 | #2,589 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 69 | #2,554 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 39 | #3,821 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 63 | #2,733 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 71 | #2,531 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 70 | #2,578 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 65 | #2,703 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 60 | #2,860 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 60 | #2,887 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 59 | #2,932 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 48 | #3,392 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 58 | #2,984 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 50 | #3,358 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 75 | #2,499 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 77 | #2,429 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 84 | #2,192 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 81 | #2,198 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 105 | #1,795 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 46 | #3,119 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 52 | #2,829 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 49 | #2,923 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 39 | #3,283 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 35 | #3,460 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 29 | #3,858 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 28 | #3,891 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 24 | #4,291 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 39 | #3,012 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 26 | #4,051 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 32 | #3,456 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 39 | #2,959 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 37 | #3,042 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 26 | #3,839 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 44 | #2,468 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 34 | #2,881 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 35 | #2,759 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 39 | #2,516 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 28 | #3,110 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 43 | #2,255 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 40 | #2,433 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 48 | #2,143 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 31 | #2,915 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 41 | #2,326 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 38 | #2,371 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 42 | #2,199 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 45 | #1,985 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 57 | #1,682 | 0.04 |
| 1974 | 40 | #2,090 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 48 | #1,794 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 44 | #1,908 | 0.03 |
| 1971 | 54 | #1,703 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 57 | #1,645 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 60 | #1,537 | 0.04 |
| 1968 | 66 | #1,383 | 0.04 |
| 1967 | 59 | #1,449 | 0.04 |
| 1966 | 64 | #1,376 | 0.04 |
| 1965 | 83 | #1,181 | 0.05 |
| 1964 | 104 | #1,070 | 0.05 |
| 1963 | 110 | #1,019 | 0.06 |
| 1962 | 81 | #1,229 | 0.04 |
| 1961 | 102 | #1,087 | 0.05 |
| 1960 | 115 | #1,002 | 0.06 |
| 1959 | 122 | #954 | 0.06 |
| 1958 | 127 | #912 | 0.06 |
| 1957 | 127 | #904 | 0.06 |
| 1956 | 151 | #809 | 0.08 |
| 1955 | 180 | #702 | 0.09 |
| 1954 | 205 | #641 | 0.11 |
| 1953 | 180 | #671 | 0.10 |
| 1952 | 202 | #616 | 0.11 |
| 1951 | 226 | #567 | 0.13 |
| 1950 | 245 | #525 | 0.14 |
| 1949 | 247 | #522 | 0.14 |
| 1948 | 279 | #479 | 0.16 |
| 1947 | 273 | #498 | 0.15 |
| 1946 | 291 | #456 | 0.19 |
| 1945 | 263 | #440 | 0.20 |
| 1944 | 265 | #444 | 0.20 |
| 1943 | 294 | #429 | 0.21 |
| 1942 | 298 | #415 | 0.22 |
| 1941 | 349 | #354 | 0.29 |
| 1940 | 290 | #400 | 0.25 |
| 1939 | 284 | #396 | 0.26 |
| 1938 | 295 | #391 | 0.27 |
| 1937 | 316 | #364 | 0.30 |
| 1936 | 310 | #360 | 0.30 |
| 1935 | 401 | #308 | 0.38 |
| 1934 | 357 | #332 | 0.34 |
| 1933 | 405 | #308 | 0.40 |
| 1932 | 416 | #313 | 0.39 |
| 1931 | 406 | #317 | 0.38 |
| 1930 | 494 | #298 | 0.44 |
| 1929 | 487 | #298 | 0.44 |
| 1928 | 475 | #304 | 0.41 |
| 1927 | 562 | #282 | 0.47 |
| 1926 | 543 | #284 | 0.46 |
| 1925 | 636 | #263 | 0.52 |
| 1924 | 581 | #270 | 0.47 |
| 1923 | 625 | #256 | 0.52 |
| 1922 | 684 | #251 | 0.57 |
| 1921 | 665 | #257 | 0.54 |
| 1920 | 711 | #245 | 0.59 |
| 1919 | 809 | #219 | 0.72 |
| 1918 | 727 | #236 | 0.63 |
| 1917 | 646 | #244 | 0.60 |
| 1916 | 669 | #239 | 0.64 |
| 1915 | 657 | #236 | 0.67 |
| 1914 | 551 | #228 | 0.72 |
| 1913 | 532 | #201 | 0.85 |
| 1912 | 548 | #180 | 1.0 |
| 1911 | 441 | #170 | 1.1 |
| 1910 | 505 | #155 | 1.3 |
| 1909 | 504 | #140 | 1.5 |
| 1908 | 436 | #155 | 1.3 |
| 1907 | 462 | #142 | 1.5 |
| 1906 | 449 | #136 | 1.5 |
| 1905 | 476 | #133 | 1.6 |
| 1904 | 420 | #139 | 1.5 |
| 1903 | 458 | #124 | 1.7 |
| 1902 | 504 | #115 | 1.9 |
| 1901 | 458 | #115 | 1.9 |
| 1900 | 657 | #103 | 2.2 |
| 1899 | 492 | #105 | 2.1 |
| 1898 | 582 | #103 | 2.2 |
| 1897 | 543 | #99 | 2.3 |
| 1896 | 508 | #100 | 2.1 |
| 1895 | 543 | #99 | 2.3 |
| 1894 | 562 | #92 | 2.5 |
| 1893 | 584 | #83 | 2.7 |
| 1892 | 597 | #80 | 2.8 |
| 1891 | 525 | #82 | 2.8 |
| 1890 | 620 | #74 | 3.3 |
| 1889 | 570 | #74 | 3.2 |
| 1888 | 593 | #75 | 3.3 |
| 1887 | 525 | #68 | 3.6 |
| 1886 | 512 | #71 | 3.5 |
| 1885 | 537 | #65 | 4.0 |
| 1884 | 523 | #66 | 4.1 |
| 1883 | 496 | #63 | 4.4 |
| 1882 | 495 | #62 | 4.6 |
| 1881 | 396 | #67 | 4.3 |
| 1880 | 388 | #67 | 4.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lizzie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lizzie has been given almost only to girls: 102 boys in 146 years of records.
Girls and boys named Lizzie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lizzie, and how old are they?
7,430 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 19% of the 39,640 Americans ever recorded as Lizzie. The median Lizzie alive today is 68 years old; half are between 30 and 80.
The 2020 Census counted 7,411 people named Lizzie (7,384 women and girls, 27 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,771 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1,690 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,510 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 765 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 546 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 937 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 915 |
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 Lizzie born?
The states with the most babies named Lizzie are Georgia, South Carolina and Alabama, with 42% of its births recorded by state since 1910; South Carolina and Alabama are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 4,070 | not ranked | 5.2× |
| South Carolina | 2,433 | not ranked | 4.8× |
| Alabama | 2,349 | not ranked | 3.6× |
| Mississippi | 2,178 | not ranked | 4.4× |
| North Carolina | 2,102 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Louisiana | 1,212 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Texas | 1,059 | #1,989 | 0.7× |
| Tennessee | 997 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Kentucky | 892 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 730 | #977 | 0.4× |
Where Lizzie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lizzie is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1910 it was given 5.2 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 Lizzie 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 40,656 babies since 1880, Lizzie is the most given (98% of them). In 2025 it was given to 87 of their 127 babies (69%), again the 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 Lizzie
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 Lizzie and names like it
- Compare Lizzie and LizzyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sLizzie peaked in 1919.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lizzie since 1910.
- The top names of 1919The year the most babies were named Lizzie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Lizzie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.