Lizabeth
Lizabeth is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 15 births. Its best rank was 718th, in 1958.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 150.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1958189 births
- Best rank
- #718in 1958
- Since 1907
- 5,603people given the name
The story in the numbers
5,603 girls have been named Lizabeth in the United States since 1907, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1958, with 189 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1966, and the 1950s alone account for 24%. It has spent 17 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Lizabeth | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 6 | |
| 1910s | 31 | |
| 1920s | 49 | |
| 1930s | 149 | |
| 1940s | 386 | |
| 1950s | 1,325 | |
| 1960s | 1,128 | |
| 1970s | 611 | |
| 1980s | 595 | |
| 1990s | 562 | |
| 2000s | 460 | |
| 2010s | 249 | |
| 2020s | 52 |
In 1958, its biggest year
Lizabeth was the 718th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1958 were Mary, Susan, Linda, Karen and Patricia. See all of 1958.
Names that rose and fell with Lizabeth
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Martapeak 1957
- Maripeak 1957
- Valeriepeak 1959
- Starlenepeak 1950
- Tonipeak 1960
- Denysepeak 1956
- Raelenepeak 1959
- Lesleepeak 1957
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.