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Lizandra vs Lizbeth

American parents have registered 25,949 Lizbeths since 1880, against 507 Lizandras. Lizbeth is still ahead, with 171 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Lizandra against Lizbeth, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Lizandra Lizbeth

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

Lizbeth has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1924 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1976, when Lizandra had 11 and Lizbeth had 40.

Side by side

  Lizandra Lizbeth
Total US births 50725,949
Most in one year 272,580
Babies in 2025 under 5171
Estimated living today 50025,000
Median age today 2822
Peak year 20102002
Best rank 5,108th girls133rd girls
Rank in 2025 unranked1,299th
First recorded 19711924
Girls / boys 507 / 025,918 / 31

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 Lizandras alive today are over 28; half the Lizbeths are over 22. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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