Lizzy
Lizzy was given to 40 girls in 2025, #3,745 among girls’ names; 961 Americans have been recorded with it since 1892 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lizzy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Lizzy mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Lizzy is “a diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Lizzy?
#3,745 among girls’ names, 2025
Lizzy rose from #4,806 in 2015 to #3,745 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 16.2 to 24.9 per million.
51 babies in 2024, the peak
Lizzy peaked in 2024, when 51 girls were given it, #3,150 among girls’ names. The 40 births of 2025 are 78% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 40 | #3,745 | 24.9 |
| 2024 | 51 | #3,150 | 31.5 |
| 2023 | 49 | #3,307 | 30.5 |
| 2022 | 38 | #3,931 | 23.2 |
| 2021 | 45 | #3,466 | 27.4 |
| 2020 | 49 | #3,209 | 30.3 |
| 2019 | 39 | #3,829 | 23.2 |
| 2018 | 27 | #4,946 | 15.9 |
| 2017 | 31 | #4,540 | 18.0 |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,310 | 11.3 |
Every recorded year (61)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 29 | #4,806 | 16.2 |
| 2014 | 41 | #3,757 | 23.0 |
| 2013 | 30 | #4,708 | 17.1 |
| 2012 | 18 | #7,039 | 10.2 |
| 2011 | 29 | #4,874 | 16.5 |
| 2010 | 26 | #5,345 | 14.6 |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,710 | 10.9 |
| 2008 | 19 | #6,962 | 10.0 |
| 2007 | 24 | #5,820 | 12.5 |
| 2006 | 18 | #7,024 | 9.5 |
| 2005 | 24 | #5,366 | 13.0 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,657 | 8.2 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,427 | 8.2 |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,036 | 3.9 |
| 2001 | 19 | #5,965 | 10.6 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,329 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,959 | 4.5 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,701 | 4.5 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,831 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,680 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,256 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,262 | 3.9 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,699 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,914 | 3.5 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,695 | 5.9 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,713 | 7.2 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,158 | 3.4 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,855 | 5.5 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,268 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,166 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,024 | 3.3 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,580 | 3.4 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,781 | 4.2 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,254 | 4.2 |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,113 | 4.0 |
| 1960 | 6 | #6,084 | 3.0 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,807 | 2.5 |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,363 | 4.5 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,406 | 3.2 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,673 | 2.9 |
| 1948 | 6 | #5,000 | 3.5 |
| 1947 | 6 | #5,047 | 3.4 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,943 | 3.8 |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,604 | 6.7 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,665 | 4.8 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,541 | 7.2 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,766 | 5.0 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,553 | 4.1 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,983 | 4.6 |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,223 | 9.0 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,568 | 23.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lizzy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lizzy 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 Lizzy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lizzy, and how old are they?
An estimated 892 Americans named Lizzy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 6 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 2,071 people named Lizzy (2,059 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 644 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.2 times 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.
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 4 names spelled alike, given to 58,311 babies since 1880, Lizzy is the third most given (1.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 40 of their 253 babies (16%), again the third 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 Lizzy
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 Lizzy and names like it
- Compare Lizzy and LizzieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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