In 2025, 24 US girls were named Lisbeth, making it the 5,331st most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,397 places from #3,934 in 2024. That is 14 fewer than the 38 girls named Lisbeth in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #624, reached in 2002. That year also had the most girls given the name: 409. For comparison, it was #3,327 in 2015 and #1,423 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lisbeth in 111 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1911 with 7 babies. In all, 5,934 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,869 babies named Lisbeth.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 396 US girls were named Lisbeth; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 56. In 2025 that was about 1 in 66,969 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Elisabeth (48,045 babies since 1880), Lizbeth (25,949 babies since 1880) and Lizbet (1,195 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Lissbet are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.