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Lizandro vs Lizzie

American parents have registered 39,640 Lizzies since 1880, against 937 Lizandros. Lizzie is still ahead, with 87 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Lizandro against Lizzie, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Lizandro Lizzie

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 146 years in which either name was published, Lizzie for 144 years and Lizandro for 2 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Lizandro Lizzie
Total US births 93739,640
Most in one year 82814
Babies in 2025 1887
Estimated living today 9207,600
Median age today 1967
Peak year 20021919
Best rank 1,514th boys219th girls
Rank in 2025 5,208th2,139th
First recorded 19751880
Girls / boys 0 / 93739,538 / 102

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Lizzies alive today are over 67; half the Lizandros are over 19. That is 48 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Lizandro Lizzie
France 1851,320

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Lizandro and Lizzie.