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Elizabeth
Pronounced /ɪˈlɪzəbəθ/
Rank in 2024
#17
Born in 2024
6,878
Peak year
1990 · #9
Origin
Hebrew
Also recorded for boys:5 in 2024 (#13,742)
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 6,878 girls were named Elizabeth, about 1 in every 235.
- It peaked in 1990 with 20,749 babies, ranked #9.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 1,681,878 girls have been named Elizabeth since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Elizabeth per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 13.2Greatest1901–27
- 8.9Silent1928–45
- 8.6Boomers1946–64
- 9.4Gen X1965–80
- 10.8Millennials1981–96
- 7.2Gen Z1997–12
- 4.9Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 271,080 babies, 13.24 per 1,000. Silent: 183,924 babies, 8.90 per 1,000. Boomers: 308,188 babies, 8.60 per 1,000. Gen X: 240,892 babies, 9.43 per 1,000. Millennials: 306,165 babies, 10.84 per 1,000. Gen Z: 209,643 babies, 7.22 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 99,005 babies, 4.87 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Middle English Elizabeth, from the Ancient Greek Ἐλισάβετ (Elisábet), a transliteration of the Old Testament Biblical Hebrew אלישבע (ʔĕlîšeḇaʕ, “my God is an oath”). See El and שבועה. Doublet of Elisheba and Isabel.
- A female given name from Hebrew, popular since the 16th century.
- Origin
- Hebrew
- Say it
- /ɪˈlɪzəbəθ/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Elizabeth, CC BY-SA 4.0.