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Lizeth

#2,184 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Lizeth has been given to 9,177 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #2,184 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2004, with 435 recorded.

Babies named Lizeth, 2025

1 in 39,000

Lizeth over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lizeth: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lizeth means

Lizeth is a given name.

The naming story behind Lizeth

Wikidata records Lizeth as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q65807849, 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, 9,168 girls were recorded with the name Lizeth between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 435 in 2004; its best national rank was #582 in 1999.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,549 in 2020 to #2,184 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,572 in 2015 to #2,184 in 2025.

In the United States, 9 boys were recorded with the name Lizeth between 1990 and 1990. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1990; its best national rank was #5,633 in 1990.

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 Lizeth?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 39,000
85 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 18,900
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,184
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
27,035 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lizeth 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 27,035 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lizeth. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lizeths were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lizeth was born before 2004 — so the typical Lizeth is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
38.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
61.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
9,168
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 38.9% of all recorded uses (3,570).

Is Lizeth 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
−457
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−635
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−612
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.61×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
19.5%
Peak was 2004 (435)
Years since peak
21
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#582
1999

Spellings of Lizeth

Lizeth is not the most common spelling — Lizbeth is, with 31.3% against Lizeth's 11.1%.

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 Lizeth is used

Across 2016–2025, Lizeth was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 6,250 girls, against 1 in 10,561 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 100,000).

116 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 6,250
  2. 2Texas1 in 7,143
  3. 3Illinois1 in 10,000
  4. 4Arizona1 in 11,111
  5. 5North Carolina1 in 11,111
  6. 6Washington1 in 12,500
  7. 7Georgia1 in 14,286
  8. 8Alabama1 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.

Notable people named Lizeth

People whose public names include Lizeth, 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.

Lizeth by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,184
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 635
Best rank ever
#582
1999
Peak year
2004
435 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
9,168
Count in 2025
85

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,633
1990
Peak year
1990
9 that year
First recorded
1990
Last recorded
1990
All-time count
9
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Lizeth

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

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Names with a curve like Lizeth

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

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Sibling names for Lizeth

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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