Elizabeth
Elizabeth is ranked 17th among girls in 2024 (6,878 births). Its best rank was 3rd, in 1887–1890, 1892.
- Rank in 2024
- #17down 2 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 6,8780.43% of girls
- Peak year
- 199020,749 births
- Best rank
- #3first in 1887
- Since 1880
- 1,687,089people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,681,878 girls have been named Elizabeth in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1990, with 20,749 births — 1.1% of all girls recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 13 → 17).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1965, and the 1980s alone account for 12%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 145 of them in the top 100 and 73 in the top 10.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 5,211 boys have also been given it, 0.31% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Elizabeth | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 25,006 | |
| 1890s | 33,879 | |
| 1900s | 41,708 | |
| 1910s | 116,811 | |
| 1920s | 139,672 | |
| 1930s | 96,479 | |
| 1940s | 116,551 | |
| 1950s | 165,658 | |
| 1960s | 168,915 | |
| 1970s | 142,855 | |
| 1980s | 198,977 | |
| 1990s | 172,690 | |
| 2000s | 133,557 | |
| 2010s | 94,068 | |
| 2020s | 35,052 |
In 1990, its biggest year
Elizabeth was the 9th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1990 were Jessica, Ashley, Brittany, Amanda and Samantha. See all of 1990.
Names that rose and fell with Elizabeth
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Ninapeak 1980
- Katherinepeak 1990
- Kathrinepeak 1956
- Katharinepeak 1982
- Corinnepeak 1978
- Katherynpeak 1990
- Juliapeak 2001
- Antoniapeak 1996
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.