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Lizett vs Lizette

American parents have registered 12,127 Lizettes since 1880, against 1,173 Lizetts. Lizette is still ahead, with 29 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Lizett against Lizette, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Lizett Lizette

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

Lizette has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1889 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2005, when Lizett had 51 and Lizette had 291.

Side by side

  Lizett Lizette
Total US births 1,17312,127
Most in one year 66506
Babies in 2025 under 529
Estimated living today 1,10012,000
Median age today 2932
Peak year 19991999
Best rank 2,258th girls511th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked4,661st
First recorded 19731889
Girls / boys 1,173 / 012,122 / 5

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 Lizettes alive today are over 32; half the Lizetts are over 29. 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: Lizett and Lizette.