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Lizabeth

About 5,619 American babies have been named Lizabeth since 1907, most of them around 1958. In 2025 it ranked 7,491st. About 4,800 Lizabeths are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 55.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Lizabeth

By the numbers

Total US births
5,619
Estimated living today
4,800
Median age today
55
Peak year
1958
Best rank
717th
Rank in 2025
7,491st
First recorded
1907

How old the living Lizabeths are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 5,619 babies given the name since 1907, about 4,800 are alive — 86 in every hundred. Roughly 380 of them are children and 1,500 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1970 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin Hebrew

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Lizabeths

People named Lizabeth with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Lizabeth is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Lizabeth is most concentrated in California (2.7×), New York (2.2×), Illinois (1.7×), Texas (1.6×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1958

The most popular girls’ names the year Lizabeth peaked:

All the names of 1958

Related names

Lizabeth against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.