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Lizeth vs Lizzet

American parents have registered 9,177 Lizeths since 1880, against 629 Lizzets. Lizeth is still ahead, with 85 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Lizeth Lizzet

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 1976, when Lizeth had 21 and Lizzet had 7.

Side by side

  Lizeth Lizzet
Total US births 9,177629
Most in one year 43536
Babies in 2025 85under 5
Estimated living today 9,100620
Median age today 2124
Peak year 20042008
Best rank 626th girls4,268th girls
Rank in 2025 2,173rdunranked
First recorded 19711976
Girls / boys 9,168 / 9629 / 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 Lizzets alive today are over 24; half the Lizeths are over 21. That is 3 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: Lizeth and Lizzet.