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Lizabeth

Gender
Girl
Say it
LIZ-uh-beth
Origin
Hebrew
US rank, 2025
#7,489 for girls

Lizabeth is a girls' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “my God is an oath”. In 2025 it ranked 7,489th for girls in the US (14 babies).

What does Lizabeth mean?

Hebrew: short form of Elizabeth

“my God is an oath”

A shortened Elizabeth; Lizabeth Scott was an American film noir actress of the 1940s.

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

Lizabeth is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 14 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Lizabeth in the US?

Rank in 2025
#7,489among girls
Babies in 2025
14about 1 in 110,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 14 girls in the US were named Lizabeth, making it the 7,489th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,137th. Its busiest year was 1958, with 189 girls. It first appears in the records in 1907.

Half of all the girls named Lizabeth in the US since 1880 were born between 1956 and 1988, the years shaded on the chart below.

1907Busiest: 189 in 19582025
Lizabeth in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202514#7,489
202415#7,247
20235#15,188
202211#9,050
202115#7,245
20207#12,137
201912#8,592
201822#5,615
201718#6,527
201631#4,530
201513#8,443
201434#4,267
201321#6,014
201232#4,484
201134#4,243
201032#4,493
200923#5,889
200839#4,005
200740#3,917
200636#4,072
200546#3,313
200450#3,067
200370#2,365
200267#2,376
200147#3,005
200042#3,212
199950#2,734
199842#3,012
199749#2,587
199653#2,420
199544#2,730
199472#1,947
199375#1,878
199251#2,483
199172#1,927
199054#2,312
198966#1,938
198852#2,182
198765#1,791
198659#1,889
198564#1,759
198453#1,945
198353#1,926
198251#2,024
198160#1,830
198072#1,605
197959#1,814
197860#1,729
197750#1,952
197654#1,747
197542#2,060
197455#1,667
197376#1,329
197254#1,655
197174#1,415
197087#1,263
196998#1,117
196877#1,244
196796#1,060
1966125#900
1965121#915
1964103#1,073
1963109#1,022
1962116#998
1961147#879
1960137#897
1959138#882
1958189#716
1957136#870
1956135#857
1955132#843
1954129#826
1953139#776
1952128#799
195197#937
1950102#875
1949106#855
194885#938
194778#1,002
194652#1,191
194520#1,873
194414#2,400
19437#3,800
19427#3,736
19418#3,250
19409#2,962
193911#2,590
193813#2,340
193717#1,914
193616#1,950
193511#2,573
193416#2,002
193317#1,906
193210#2,829
193125#1,501
193013#2,424
19297#3,680
19288#3,434
19270–
19266#4,304
19250–
19245#5,059
19230–
19229#3,377
19215#5,097
19209#3,339
19197#3,815
19187#3,867
19170–
19166#3,917
19156#3,793
19140–
19135#3,185
19120–
19110–
19100–
19090–
19080–
19076#1,820

Nicknames for Lizabeth

Names like Lizabeth

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

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Sources

Figures from 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, “Lizabeth: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/lizabeth, updated 20 October 2026.