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Lizet vs Lizeth

American parents have registered 9,177 Lizeths since 1880, against 2,528 Lizets. Lizeth is still ahead, with 85 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Lizet against Lizeth, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Lizet Lizeth

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 58 years in which either name was published, Lizeth for 53 years and Lizet for 5 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Lizet Lizeth
Total US births 2,5289,177
Most in one year 165435
Babies in 2025 685
Estimated living today 2,5009,100
Median age today 2621
Peak year 19992004
Best rank 1,174th girls626th girls
Rank in 2025 13,208th2,173rd
First recorded 19661971
Girls / boys 2,528 / 09,168 / 9

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 Lizets alive today are over 26; half the Lizeths are over 21. That is 5 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.

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