Lisbeth
Feminine · “My God is an oath”
Lisbeth is Elizabeth with the front taken off — a Scandinavian and German shortening that became a name in its own right centuries ago. Where Elizabeth is formal and long, Lisbeth is the same name at working length: two syllables and a clean stop.
How old is the name Lisbeth?
Lisbeth first appears in US birth records in 1911 — 114 years ago. The typical Lisbeth alive today was born around 1998, making them about 27 years old. About 5,400 people named Lisbeth are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Lisbeth most popular?
Lisbeth peaked in 2002, reaching #624 nationally. Today it ranks #5238, 4,614 places below that high. See the whole 2002 chart.
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Where it comes from
From ʾĔlîšebaʿ to Lisbeth
The story of Lisbeth
Elisheba was the wife of Aaron, and Elizabeth the mother of John the Baptist, which put the name into Christian use everywhere. Germany and Scandinavia clipped it early and hard: Lisbeth, Lisbet, Liesbeth, Elsbeth and Lise all became independent names. American records show Lisbeth thinly through the twentieth century, mostly in families of German and Scandinavian descent, and its modest peak in the early 2000s comes before Stieg Larsson's Lisbeth Salander reached English readers in 2008 — the novel changed the name's associations sharply but arrived after its American high point.
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 and the ambiguity is old. Lisbeth carries the meaning of the full name; the shortening itself adds nothing.
How the name formed
- ʾĔlîšebaʿ
- Elisabeth
- Lisbeth
Related forms: Lisbeth · Lisbeth · Liesbeth · Lisbet · Elizabeth · Isabel
Pronouncing Lisbeth
LIZ-beth
Two syllables, stress on the first. German and Danish give the s a clearer hiss and the e a fuller value: LEES-bet.
Nicknames for Lisbeth
Moderate
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
- 1911
- Most girls named
- 2003344 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #624reached in 2002
- Change vs 2023
- −35.1%24 in 2025, from 37
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.
Lisbeth in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Lisbeth in German — same name
- Lisbeth in Danish — same name
- Liesbeth in Dutch — spelling variant
- Lisbet in Swedish — spelling variant
- Elizabeth in English — related form
- Isabel in Spanish — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: New York, California, Florida.
Lisbeths among us
people named Lisbeth are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 66,969 born in 2025 was named Lisbeth
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Lisbeth
- #5238
- Lisbeth on the 2025 chart
- #765
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Lisbeth went to 24 girls in 2025, but Lizbeth is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 195, which makes it the 765th most-given girls’ name of the year — 4,473 places above the chart.
- Lizbeth171
- Lisbeth24
About 1 girl in 8,242 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 66,969 for Lisbeth itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Darline test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Lisbeth's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Darline climbed just as high around 1933, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Darline's path sketches the road Lisbeth is walking now.
Lisbeth 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
Lisbeth beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Lisbeth in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It is a short, finished form of one of the most established names in Europe.
- Lis and Beth are both instantly usable.
- The meaning is well documented and easy to explain.
- Lisbeth Salander is now the dominant association in English-speaking countries.
- Lisbeth, Lisbet, Liesbeth and Elisabeth will be written for each other.
- It reads as a shortened form to Americans, who will ask if it is Elizabeth.
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Frequently asked
- How many Lisbeths are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 5,400 people named Lisbeth are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Lisbeth?
- Lisbeth is one of 2 recorded spellings. Lizbeth is the more common one — 171 births in 2025 against 24 for Lisbeth.
- How popular is the name Lisbeth in 2025?
- Lisbeth ranks #5238 among US girl names in 2025, with 24 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Lisbeth?
- About 1 in every 66,969 US girls born in 2025 was named Lisbeth — 24 in all.
- Will my child share the name Lisbeth with classmates?
- Lisbeth will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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