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Lisbeth

Gender
Girl
Say it
LIZ-beth
Origin
Hebrew
US rank, 2025
#5,237 for girls

Lisbeth is a girls' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “my God is an oath”. In 2025 it ranked 5,237th for girls in the US (24 babies).

What does Lisbeth mean?

Hebrew: short form of Elisabeth

“my God is an oath”

A short form of Elisabeth; Lisbeth Salander is the hacker heroine of Stieg Larsson's Millennium novels.

Is Lisbeth a girl's or a boy's name?

Lisbeth is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 24 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Lisbeth in the UK?

No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2012, with 8 girls.

2011Busiest: 8 in 20122018
Lisbeth in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20181#7,536
20170–
20160–
20154#4,951
20144#4,888
20135#4,267
20128#3,148
20111#7,717

How popular is Lisbeth in the US?

Rank in 2025
5,237th among girls
Babies in 2025
24 about 1 in 67,000 girls
Five-year trend
Steady down 20% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 24 girls in the US were named Lisbeth, making it the 5,237th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,450th. Its busiest year was 2002, with 409 girls. It first appears in the records in 1911.

2025 had fewer girls named Lisbeth than any year since 1976.

Half of all the girls named Lisbeth in the US since 1880 were born between 1966 and 2004, the years shaded on the chart below.

1911Busiest: 409 in 20022025
Lisbeth in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202524#5,237
202438#3,892
202337#3,982
202225#5,169
202148#3,296
202044#3,450
201948#3,271
201832#4,356
201744#3,478
201656#2,966
201549#3,299
201458#2,920
201361#2,803
201282#2,286
201172#2,510
201085#2,258
2009125#1,742
200897#2,092
2007122#1,760
2006133#1,608
2005163#1,340
2004206#1,106
2003344#742
2002409#624
2001118#1,572
2000152#1,274
1999157#1,210
1998106#1,555
199779#1,861
199690#1,683
1995113#1,429
199484#1,739
199391#1,650
199289#1,684
199180#1,773
199073#1,901
198966#1,938
198844#2,442
198746#2,307
198637#2,619
198536#2,656
198437#2,514
198341#2,309
198238#2,492
198131#2,847
198038#2,486
197932#2,724
197841#2,237
197731#2,666
197618#3,677
197521#3,259
197430#2,497
197334#2,267
197222#2,976
197122#3,062
197045#1,904
196946#1,809
196830#2,205
196730#2,167
196653#1,532
196550#1,575
196434#2,039
196346#1,682
196251#1,576
196144#1,719
196057#1,453
195951#1,515
195860#1,363
195742#1,651
195647#1,547
195582#1,101
195474#1,153
195374#1,129
195266#1,170
195160#1,202
195042#1,410
194945#1,375
194856#1,208
194763#1,126
194647#1,256
194525#1,659
194418#2,026
194328#1,590
194215#2,310
194117#2,018
194018#1,899
193915#2,125
193816#2,021
19377#3,433
193615#2,032
19355#4,202
193412#2,423
193311#2,539
193212#2,488
19317#3,495
19307#3,656
19298#3,392
192810#2,952
19276#4,284
192610#3,045
19256#4,425
192410#3,143
19230–
19228#3,653
19217#4,021
19206#4,396
19198#3,450
19186#4,289
19177#3,711
19160–
19155#4,272
19148#2,637
19130–
19120–
19117#1,956

Nicknames for Lisbeth

Names like Lisbeth

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Mia, Leah, Ava, Molly, Lily, Autumn, Delilah, Hannah, Jessica, Scarlett, Fatima, Lara

Names related to Lisbeth

Lizbeth, Lizabeth, Lizbet, Lisbet

More Hebrew names

Noah, Isabella, Elijah, James, Jack, Jude, Ezra, Benjamin, Isaac, Jacob, Ethan, Daniel, Samuel, Elias, Mateo, Elsie

Every Hebrew name

Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Lisbeth: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/lisbeth, updated 20 October 2026.