Lizzie
Lizzie is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 79 births. Its best rank was 62nd, in 1882.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 790.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1919809 births
- Best rank
- #62in 1882
- Since 1880
- 39,435people given the name
The story in the numbers
39,435 girls have been named Lizzie in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1919, with 809 births.
The name has all but left use: 79 births in 2024, against 809 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1917, and the 1910s alone account for 15%. It has spent 80 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 18 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Lizzie | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5,035 | |
| 1890s | 5,556 | |
| 1900s | 4,824 | |
| 1910s | 6,085 | |
| 1920s | 5,969 | |
| 1930s | 3,684 | |
| 1940s | 2,849 | |
| 1950s | 1,765 | |
| 1960s | 844 | |
| 1970s | 466 | |
| 1980s | 367 | |
| 1990s | 326 | |
| 2000s | 666 | |
| 2010s | 603 | |
| 2020s | 396 |
In 1919, its biggest year
Lizzie was the 219th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1919 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1919.
Names that rose and fell with Lizzie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Minniepeak 1916
- Maypeak 1919
- Effiepeak 1919
- Nanniepeak 1920
- Lidapeak 1918
- Augustapeak 1915
- Lillapeak 1918
- Salliepeak 1916
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.