How many Alizabeths are there in the world?

No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,800 people named Alizabeth are estimated to be alive in the US today.

How popular is the name Alizabeth in 2025?

Alizabeth ranks #5554 among US girl names in 2025, with 22 babies given the name.

How rare is the name Alizabeth?

About 1 in every 73,058 US girls born in 2025 was named Alizabeth — 22 in all.

Will my child share the name Alizabeth with classmates?

Alizabeth will almost certainly be the only one in school.

Alizabeth

Feminine · “My God is an oath”

#5554 in the U.S.given to only a few children a year

rare22 girls in 2025

Alizabeth is Elizabeth with the first vowel changed, and the change matters more than it looks: the E of Elizabeth is the Hebrew ʾēl, the word for God. Replace it with an A and the name's first element stops meaning anything.

How old is the name Alizabeth?

Alizabeth first appears in US birth records in 1978 — 47 years ago. The typical Alizabeth alive today was born around 2006, making them about 19 years old. About 1,800 people named Alizabeth are estimated to be alive in the US today.

When was the name Alizabeth most popular?

Alizabeth peaked in 2007, reaching #2177 nationally. Today it ranks #5554, 3,377 places below that high. See the whole 2007 chart.

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Where it comes from

From ʾĔlîšebaʿ to Alizabeth

The story of Alizabeth

Elisheba was Aaron's wife and Elizabeth the mother of John the Baptist, and the name has been continuously used across Christendom since. England's two queens Elizabeth fixed it as a royal name, and it has never left the American top twenty-five since records began — an unbroken run no other girls' name matches. Names that stable generate few variants, but the ones they do generate tend to be phonetic: Elisabeth, Elizabet, Alizabeth, Elizebeth. Alizabeth appears in the American records in the 1990s and peaks in 2007, and it belongs to that small variant stream rather than to any separate tradition.

Meaning

My God is an oath

From Hebrew ʾĔlîšebaʿ, from ʾēl, God, and a second element read either as šebaʿ, oath, or as sābaʿ, abundance. The oath reading is the usual one. The opening ʾēl is the divine element and is carried by the E of the standard spelling; the A of Alizabeth is an American respelling of an unstressed vowel and has no meaning.

How the name formed

ʾĔlîšebaʿ
Elisabeth
Elizabeth
Alizabeth

Related forms: אֱלִישֶׁבַע · Elizabeth · Elisabeth · Isabel · Elisabetta

Pronouncing Alizabeth

uh-LIZ-uh-beth

Four syllables, stress on the second, identical to Elizabeth. The opening vowel is reduced in both spellings, which is why the variant exists.

Nicknames for Alizabeth

Moderate

AliThe front, which this spelling makes available and the standard one does not

LizThe middle, and one of the most portable short forms in English

BethThe back, and a complete name in its own right

What the data says

146 years of official birth records

The long climb, and where it stands now

The same years in position rather than babies

First recorded: 1978
Most girls named: 200791 — the highest on record
Peak rank: #2177reached in 2007
Change vs 2024: +57.1%22 in 2025, from 14

Alizabeth sits in the rare tail. Its best year on record was 2007, with 91 girls. Today it is given to few enough children that it does not enter the ranked charts at all.

Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.

Alizabeth in other languages

The same name elsewhere

אֱלִישֶׁבַע in Hebrew — related form
Elizabeth in English — spelling variant
Elisabeth in German — related form
Isabel in Spanish — related form
Elisabetta in Italian — related form

Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Florida.

Alizabeths among us

1,800

people named Alizabeth are estimated to be alive in the US today

About 1 girl in 73,058 born in 2025 was named Alizabeth

Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method

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Is it right for you

What happens to a name after it peaks

The Reeshemah test

Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Alizabeth's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Reeshemah climbed just as high around 1971, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Reeshemah's path sketches the road Alizabeth is walking now.

40%chance Alizabeth will feel dated by 2040

Alizabeth, aligned on its peakReeshemah· peak 1971not yet written

Alizabeth today is about where Reeshemah stood in 1989 — 18 years past a #2175-sized peak. Within 15 years, Reeshemah had drifted out of the mainstream charts.

Ages quietlysteadyDates fast

Alizabeth sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.

A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored

Alizabeth beside its neighbors

The names ranked closest to Alizabeth in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.

Alizabeththis name22#5554Eda22#5554Phebe22#5554Felicia22#5554Audie22#5554

US girls given each name in 2025.

The trade-off

Practical strengths

The A spelling makes Ali available as a short form.
It sounds exactly like one of the most established names in the world.
Liz and Beth are both instantly usable.

What to consider

Elizabeth is the standard spelling and will be written for it, always.
The A replaces the Hebrew word for God, which a curious child will find.
Elizabeth is so dominant that any variant reads as a misspelling.

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Frequently asked

How many Alizabeths are there in the world?: No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,800 people named Alizabeth are estimated to be alive in the US today.
How popular is the name Alizabeth in 2025?: Alizabeth ranks #5554 among US girl names in 2025, with 22 babies given the name.
How rare is the name Alizabeth?: About 1 in every 73,058 US girls born in 2025 was named Alizabeth — 22 in all.
Will my child share the name Alizabeth with classmates?: Alizabeth will almost certainly be the only one in school.

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