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Liz

#1,259 in 2025Girls' name

My God is an oath, through Elizabeth

Liz has been given to 10,223 babies in the U.S. since 1930. In 2025 it ranked #1,259 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1961, with 664 recorded.

Babies named Liz, 2025

1 in 18,600

Liz over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Liz: meaning, origin, and history

My God is an oath, through Elizabeth

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Liz means

Liz belongs to the name family reached through Liz → Elizabeth. Its meaning is “my God is an oath”.

Origin, language, and formation

Liz is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Elizabeth.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Liz is pronounced /lɪz/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10,223 girls were recorded with the name Liz between 1930 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 664 in 1961; its best national rank was #375 in 1961.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,359 in 2020 to #1,259 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,636 in 2015 to #1,259 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 Liz?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 18,600
178 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 9,030
0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,259
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
12,911 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Liz 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 12,911 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Liz. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lizs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Liz was born before 1966 — so the typical Liz is around 59 today.

Median birth year
1966
About 59 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
33.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
26.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
9,865
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 33.2% of all recorded uses (3,392).

Is Liz 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
+96
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+100
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,377
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.62×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
26.8%
Peak was 1961 (664)
Years since peak
64
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#375
1961

Where Liz is used

Across 2016–2025, Liz was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in 1,205 girls, against 1 in 7,718 across all states with data. It was least common in Maryland (1 in 50,000).

283 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Massachusetts1 in 1,205
  2. 2Florida1 in 2,778
  3. 3Connecticut1 in 3,704
  4. 4New Jersey1 in 4,348
  5. 5New York1 in 10,000
  6. 6California1 in 12,500
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in 16,667
  8. 8Texas1 in 16,667

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.

Liz around the world

Where Liz 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
    2000–2025
    #1,639
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2004–2025
    #325
    in 2025
  • France
    1961–2025
    #993
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–1994
    #606
    in 1994
  • Canada
    2003–2024
    #1,286
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1973–1973
    #695
    in 1973

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, 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. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Liz

People whose public names include Liz, 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.

Liz in other languages

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

LisLyzIlsaIlseIlzeLisaLiseLissLizaTinaTineBetsyBettyLieseLieslLiisaSabelBetinaIsabelIzabelLieselBettinaElspethIzabela

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

Liz by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,259
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 100
Best rank ever
#375
1961
Peak year
1961
664 that year
First recorded
1930
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
10,223
Count in 2025
178

Names similar to Liz

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

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Names with a curve like Liz

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

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Sibling names for Liz

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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