Lizardo

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Lizardo has been given to 20 babies in the U.S. since 1970. 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 1970, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Lizardo, 2023

1 in 663,000

Lizardo over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lizardo: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lizardo means

Lizardo is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Lizardo is used in Spanish.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Lizardo is pronounced /liˈθaɾdo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 20 boys were recorded with the name Lizardo between 1970 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1970; its best national rank was #5,155 in 1970.

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.

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How common is Lizardo?

Lizardo had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023: 1 in 663,000; 5 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only: 1 in 342,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 459,528 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Lizardo sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 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 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lizardo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lizardos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lizardo was born before 2010 — so the typical Lizardo is around 15 today.

Median birth year: 2010; About 15 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 50.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 75.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 20; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (10).

Is Lizardo 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: —; 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: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1970 (5)
Years since peak: 55; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #5,155; 1970

Spellings of Lizardo

Lizardo is not the most common spelling — Ricardo is, with 94.8% against Lizardo's 0.01%.

Ricardo94.8%146,456
Lazaro4.6%7,118
Lizandro0.61%937
Lizardo0.01%20

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.

Lizardo by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #5,155; 1970
Peak year: 1970; 5 that year
First recorded: 1970
Last recorded: 2023
All-time count: 20
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Lizardo

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

Lizbeth Lizette Denardo Rikardo Ranardo Lizeth Bayardo Esgardo Alferdo Reynardo Jildardo Lizzie Edoardo Liza Arnardo Benardo Lenardo Edurdo Lizandro Rickardo Reinardo Bardo Elizardo Avelardo

Sibling names for Lizardo

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

For a sister

Nicolle Janeen Corinna Marlo Shonda Jeana Jeanna Trena

For a brother

Judd Douglass Alfonzo Edwardo Shon Brant Scot Darrick

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