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Elizabete

Girls' name

God, deity + to promise, swear, through Elisabete

Elizabete has been given to 10 babies in the U.S. since 1978. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1978, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Elizabete, 1981

1 in 692,000

Elizabete over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Elizabete: meaning, origin, and history

God, deity + to promise, swear, through Elisabete

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Elizabete means

Elizabete belongs to the name family reached through Elizabete → Elisabete → אלישבע. Its meaning is “god, deity + to promise, swear”.

Origin, language, and formation

Elizabete is used in Latvian and Portuguese.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Elisabete and אלישבע.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10 girls were recorded with the name Elizabete between 1978 and 1981. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1978; its best national rank was #10,206 in 1978.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Elizabete?

Elizabete had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1981, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1981
1 in 692,000
5 of 3,459,130 births
Among girls only
1 in 334,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1981
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
479,538 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Elizabete sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1981 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 479,538 children born in 1981 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Elizabete. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Elizabetes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Elizabete was born before 1978 — so the typical Elizabete is around 47 today.

Median birth year
1978
About 47 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
50.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
10
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1970s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Elizabete rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1978 (5)
Years since peak
47
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#10,206
1978

Spellings of Elizabete

Elizabete is not the most common spelling — Elizabeth is, with 96.3% against Elizabete's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Elizabete around the world

Where Elizabete ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2010–2021
    #4,634
    in 2021
  • Ireland
    2006–2016
    #868
    in 2016
  • France
    1968–1984
    #2,105
    in 1984
  • South Australia
    1990–1990
    #691
    in 1990

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Elizabete by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#10,206
1978
Peak year
1978
5 that year
First recorded
1978
Last recorded
1981
All-time count
10
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Elizabete

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Elizabete

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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