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Lizeth vs Lizzette

American parents have registered 9,177 Lizeths since 1880, against 1,722 Lizzettes. Lizeth is still ahead, with 85 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Lizeth Lizzette

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

Of the 68 years in which either name was published, Lizeth for 49 years and Lizzette for 19 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Lizeth Lizzette
Total US births 9,1771,722
Most in one year 43563
Babies in 2025 85under 5
Estimated living today 9,1001,700
Median age today 2136
Peak year 20041999
Best rank 626th girls2,343rd girls
Rank in 2025 2,173rdunranked
First recorded 19711917
Girls / boys 9,168 / 91,722 / 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 Lizzettes alive today are over 36; half the Lizeths are over 21. That is 15 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 Lizzette.