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Lizania vs Lizeth

American parents have registered 9,177 Lizeths since 1880, against 85 Lizanias. Lizeth is still ahead, with 85 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Lizania against Lizeth, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Lizania Lizeth

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

Lizeth has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1971 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2007, when Lizania had 44 and Lizeth had 326.

Side by side

  Lizania Lizeth
Total US births 859,177
Most in one year 44435
Babies in 2025 under 585
Estimated living today 809,100
Median age today 1821
Peak year 20072004
Best rank 3,653rd girls626th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked2,173rd
First recorded 20061971
Girls / boys 85 / 09,168 / 9

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 Lizeths alive today are over 21; half the Lizanias are over 18. That is 3 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: Lizania and Lizeth.