In 2025, 87 US girls were named Lizzie, making it the 2,145th most common girls’ name of the year, up 194 places from #2,339 in 2024. That is 8 more than the 79 girls named Lizzie in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #62, reached in 1882. The most girls given the name in a single year was 809, in 1919. For comparison, it was #2,578 in 2015 and #526 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lizzie in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 388 babies with the name. In all, 39,640 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1910s, with 6,102 babies named Lizzie.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 726 US girls were named Lizzie; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 95. In 2025 that was about 1 in 18,474 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Lizzie ranked highest in Ohio in 2025, at #775 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Lissie, Lizie and Lizzi are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Liz.