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Elizabeth vs Elizbeath

American parents have registered 1,693,973 Elizabeths since 1880, against 8 Elizbeaths. Elizabeth is still ahead, with 6,765 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Elizabeth against Elizbeath, 1880 to 2025 0 6k 12k 18k 24k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Elizabeth Elizbeath

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Elizabeth has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1926, when Elizabeth had 12,891 and Elizbeath had 8.

Side by side

  Elizabeth Elizbeath
Total US births 1,693,9738
Most in one year 20,8418
Babies in 2025 6,765under 5
Estimated living today 1.1 million0
Median age today 4299
Peak year 19901926
Best rank 9th girls3,564th girls
Rank in 2025 17thunranked
First recorded 18801926
Girls / boys 1,688,757 / 5,2168 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Elizbeaths alive today are over 99; half the Elizabeths are over 42. That is 57 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Elizabeth and Elizbeath.