Elizabeth
From the Hebrew Elisheva, my God is an oath. The New Testament gives it to John the Baptist's mother, and English queens made it a fixture.
Elizabeth in 2025
Elizabeth was given to 6,765 babies in the United States in 2025, making it the 52nd most popular name of the year. That is roughly one in every 490 babies born.
The history of Elizabeth
Elizabeth reached its highest point in 1990, when 20,841 babies were given the name, ranking 31st that year. Its best-ever ranking was 8th, in 1889.
Across the 146 years of records since 1880, 1,693,973 babies have been named Elizabeth. Half of them were born before 1966, which places the name's centre of gravity with Generation X.
Elizabeth by decade
| Decade | Babies named Elizabeth | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 25,113 | 8 |
| 1890s | 33,995 | 8 |
| 1900s | 41,843 | 10 |
| 1910s | 117,074 | 10 |
| 1920s | 140,106 | 18 |
| 1930s | 96,943 | 33 |
| 1940s | 116,909 | 41 |
| 1950s | 166,022 | 45 |
| 1960s | 169,465 | 37 |
| 1970s | 143,473 | 31 |
| 1980s | 199,972 | 25 |
| 1990s | 173,146 | 31 |
| 2000s | 133,802 | 34 |
| 2010s | 94,194 | 43 |
| 2020s | 41,916 | 52 |
Where Elizabeth is heading
Elizabeth has fallen 31% over the past decade, from 9,777 babies in 2015 to 6,765 in 2025.
Names like Elizabeth
Names that rose and fell at the same time as Elizabeth.