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Lisbet

Girls' name

Short form of Elisabet

Lisbet has been given to 973 babies in the U.S. since 1958. 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 2002, with 132 recorded.

Babies named Lisbet, 2019

1 in 579,000

Lisbet 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lisbet: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Elisabet

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lisbet means

Lisbet is a short form of Elisabet.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Lisbet is used in Swedish, Danish and Norwegian.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Lisbet → Elisabet. The family’s meaning is “my God is an oath”, recorded in Finnish with the source elements ʾĕlîšeḇaʿ.

Origin, language, and formation

Lisbet is used in Danish, Faroese and Swedish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Elisabet.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 973 girls were recorded with the name Lisbet between 1958 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 132 in 2002; its best national rank was #1,447 in 2002.

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 Lisbet?

Lisbet had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019
1 in 579,000
6 of 3,472,229 births
Among girls only
1 in 280,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2019
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
401,129 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lisbet 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 2019 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 401,129 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lisbet. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lisbets were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lisbet was born before 2002 — so the typical Lisbet is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
53.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
73.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
973
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 53.8% of all recorded uses (523).

Is Lisbet 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2002 (132)
Years since peak
23
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,447
2002

Spellings of Lisbet

Lisbet is not the most common spelling — Lizbeth is, with 54.8% against Lisbet's 2.1%.

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.

Where Lisbet is used

Across 1910–2025, Lisbet was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 133,472 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2Florida1 in 100,000
  3. 3Oregon1 in 100,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 100,000
  5. 5Georgia1 in —
  6. 6Illinois1 in —
  7. 7North Carolina1 in —
  8. 8New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Lisbet has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lisbet around the world

Where Lisbet 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.

  • Norway
    1880–1996
    #615
    in 1996

Popularity data from Statistics Norway. SSB data under CC BY 4.0.

Lisbet 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
—
Best rank ever
#1,447
2002
Peak year
2002
132 that year
First recorded
1958
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
973
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Lisbet

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

LisethLissetLissethLissieLishaLisettLisetLisandraLissaLissettLisaannLisbethLizbetLisseteLisanneLissyLisabethLisetteLisannaElisabetLisLissandraLismaryElizabet

Sibling names for Lisbet

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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