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Lizet

#14,217 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Lizet has been given to 2,528 babies in the U.S. since 1966. In 2025 it ranked #14,217 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1999, with 165 recorded.

Babies named Lizet, 2025

1 in 553,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lizet: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lizet means

Lizet is a given name.

The naming story behind Lizet

Wikidata records Lizet as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q125216385, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,528 girls were recorded with the name Lizet between 1966 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 165 in 1999; its best national rank was #1,177 in 1999.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #10,772 in 2020 to #14,217 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #8,262 in 2015 to #14,217 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.

How common is Lizet?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#14,217
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lizet 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lizet. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lizets were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lizet was born before 1998 — so the typical Lizet is around 27 today.

Median birth year
1998
About 27 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
34.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
39.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,528
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 34.1% of all recorded uses (861).

Is Lizet 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
−3,445
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−5,955
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.43×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
3.6%
Peak was 1999 (165)
Years since peak
26
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,177
1999

Spellings of Lizet

Lizet is not the most common spelling — Lizbeth is, with 26.3% against Lizet's 2.6%.

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 Lizet is used

Across 1910–2025, Lizet was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 42,953 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 14,286
  2. 2Texas1 in 33,333
  3. 3Arizona1 in 50,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in 100,000
  5. 5Nevada1 in 100,000
  6. 6Colorado1 in —
  7. 7Florida1 in —
  8. 8Georgia1 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. Lizet has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lizet by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#14,217
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,445
Best rank ever
#1,177
1999
Peak year
1999
165 that year
First recorded
1966
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,528
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Lizet

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

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Names with a curve like Lizet

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

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Sibling names for Lizet

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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