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Lizette vs Lizzet

American parents have registered 12,127 Lizettes since 1880, against 629 Lizzets. Lizette is still ahead, with 29 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Lizette 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

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 2008, when Lizette had 190 and Lizzet had 36.

Side by side

  Lizette Lizzet
Total US births 12,127629
Most in one year 50636
Babies in 2025 29under 5
Estimated living today 12,000620
Median age today 3224
Peak year 19992008
Best rank 511th girls4,268th girls
Rank in 2025 4,661stunranked
First recorded 18891976
Girls / boys 12,122 / 5629 / 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 Lizettes alive today are over 32; half the Lizzets are over 24. That is 8 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: Lizette and Lizzet.