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Lizbeth vs Lizeth

American parents have registered 25,949 Lizbeths since 1880, against 9,177 Lizeths. Lizbeth is still ahead, with 171 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Lizbeth 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

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 1980, when Lizbeth had 88 and Lizeth had 77.

Side by side

  Lizbeth Lizeth
Total US births 25,9499,177
Most in one year 2,580435
Babies in 2025 17185
Estimated living today 25,0009,100
Median age today 2221
Peak year 20022004
Best rank 133rd girls626th girls
Rank in 2025 1,299th2,173rd
First recorded 19241971
Girls / boys 25,918 / 319,168 / 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.

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: Lizbeth and Lizeth.