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Lisbeth

#5,330 in 2025Girls' name

Short form of Elisabeth

Lisbeth has been given to 5,934 babies in the U.S. since 1911. In 2025 it ranked #5,330 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2002, with 409 recorded.

Babies named Lisbeth, 2025

1 in 138,000

Lisbeth over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lisbeth: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Elisabeth

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lisbeth means

Lisbeth is a short form of Elisabeth.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Lisbeth → Elisabeth. The family’s meaning is “my God is an oath”, recorded in English with the source elements Elishéva.

Origin, language, and formation

Lisbeth is used in Danish, German, Norwegian and Swedish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Elisabeth and Elisabet.

Pronunciation and spelling

In German, Lisbeth is pronounced /ˈlɪsbɛt/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,934 girls were recorded with the name Lisbeth between 1911 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 409 in 2002; its best national rank was #624 in 2002.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,476 in 2020 to #5,330 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,327 in 2015 to #5,330 in 2025.

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 Lisbeth?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 138,000
24 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 67,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,330
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
95,747 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lisbeth 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 2025 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 95,747 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lisbeth. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lisbeths were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lisbeth was born before 1997 — so the typical Lisbeth is around 28 today.

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
31.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
42.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
5,383
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Choose a decade

2000s — 31.5% of all recorded uses (1,869).

Is Lisbeth 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
−1,396
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,854
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,003
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.49×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
5.9%
Peak was 2002 (409)
Years since peak
23
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#624
2002

Spellings of Lisbeth

Lisbeth is not the most common spelling — Elisabeth is, with 44.1% against Lisbeth's 5.4%.

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 Lisbeth is used

Across 1910–2025, Lisbeth was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 37,656 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 14,286
  2. 2New York1 in 16,667
  3. 3Texas1 in 25,000
  4. 4Arizona1 in 33,333
  5. 5Florida1 in 33,333
  6. 6New Jersey1 in 33,333
  7. 7Nevada1 in 33,333
  8. 8Illinois1 in 50,000

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. Lisbeth has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lisbeth around the world

Where Lisbeth 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
    2012–2015
    #4,736
    in 2015
  • France
    1906–2024
    #4,012
    in 2024
  • Norway
    1880–2013
    #559
    in 2013
  • Canada
    1999–2014
    #3,202
    in 2014
  • South Australia
    1944–2010
    #801
    in 2010

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

Notable people named Lisbeth

People whose public names include Lisbeth, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Lisbeth in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Lisbeth. Linked forms have their own page here.

LisbetLisabethElisabethLisebeth

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Lisbeth by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,330
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,854
Best rank ever
#624
2002
Peak year
2002
409 that year
First recorded
1911
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,934
Count in 2025
24

Names similar to Lisbeth

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

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Names with a curve like Lisbeth

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Lisbeth, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Lisbeth

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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