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Lizzy

#3,745 in 2025Girls' name

My God is an oath, through Elizabeth

Lizzy has been given to 961 babies in the U.S. since 1892. In 2025 it ranked #3,745 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 51 recorded.

Babies named Lizzy, 2025

1 in 82,900

Lizzy over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lizzy: meaning, origin, and history

My God is an oath, through Elizabeth

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lizzy means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Lizzy is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Elizabeth.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 961 girls were recorded with the name Lizzy between 1892 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 51 in 2024; its best national rank was #1,568 in 1892.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,209 in 2020 to #3,745 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,806 in 2015 to #3,745 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 Lizzy?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 82,900
40 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 40,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,745
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
57,449 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lizzy 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 57,449 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lizzy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lizzys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lizzy was born before 2013 — so the typical Lizzy is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
30.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
75.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
892
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 30.2% of all recorded uses (290).

Is Lizzy 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
−595
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−536
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,061
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.38×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
78.4%
Peak was 2024 (51)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,568
1892

Spellings of Lizzy

Lizzy is not the most common spelling — Lily is, with 50.9% against Lizzy's 0.26%.

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 Lizzy is used

Across 1910–2025, Lizzy was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 481,762 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Louisiana1 in —
  3. 3Michigan1 in —
  4. 4North Carolina1 in —
  5. 5New York1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 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. Lizzy has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lizzy around the world

Where Lizzy 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
    1999–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    2020–2020
    #834
    in 2020
  • France
    1991–2025
    #1,512
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2019–2024
    #2,463
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Lizzy by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,745
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 536
Best rank ever
#1,568
1892
Peak year
2024
51 that year
First recorded
1892
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
961
Count in 2025
40

Names similar to Lizzy

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

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Sibling names for Lizzy

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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