Liseth
Feminine · “Hebrew Elisheva”
A foreign name's ending can become a local suffix. In Colombia and Ecuador the -eth of Elizabeth broke off and went productive, giving Liseth, Yaneth, Yuleth, Nayeth and Marleth, none of which exists anywhere else. A borrowed fragment became a regional grammar.
How old is the name Liseth?
Liseth first appears in US birth records in 1976 — 49 years ago. The typical Liseth alive today was born around 2000, making them about 25 years old. About 700 people named Liseth are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Liseth most popular?
Liseth peaked in 1999, reaching #3048 nationally. Today it ranks #9457, 6,409 places below that high. See the whole 1999 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Elisheva to Liseth
The story of Liseth
Suffix borrowing works the same way everywhere: a name becomes common enough that its ending is heard as a detachable piece, and speakers begin attaching it to other openings. What makes the Colombian -eth case unusual is that the source ending is not a suffix in its own language at all. In Elizabeth the -eth is the tail of a Hebrew word, sheva, an oath, and it means nothing on its own. Spanish speakers, meeting the name through English and finding the ending unfamiliar and attractive, treated it as available, and it now appears on stems that have no Hebrew behind them: Yaneth from Jeanette, Yuleth from Julia, Marleth from Marlene. The result is a set of names that look English to a Colombian and Colombian to anyone else, built from a fragment that was never a unit in either language.
Meaningscholars disagree
Hebrew Elisheva, my God is an oath
Liseth is most likely built from Elizabeth, Hebrew Elisheva, whose second element is genuinely disputed between oath and abundance. The form takes the middle and end of the name and drops the opening, and the -eth ending has become independently productive in Colombian and Ecuadorian naming. The American peak is 1999.
How the name formed
- Elisheva
- Elizabeth
- Liseth
Related forms: Lisseth · Liset · Elizabeth
Pronouncing Liseth
lee-SET
Two syllables, stress on the second. Spanish has no th sound, so the ending is said as a t. English readers often say LY-seth instead.
Nicknames for Liseth
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
- 1976
- Most girls named
- 199943 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3048reached in 1999
- Change vs 2024
- +66.7%10 in 2025, from 6
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.
Liseth in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Lisseth in Spanish — spelling variant
- Liset in Spanish — spelling variant
- Elizabeth in English — related form
Liseths among us
people named Liseth are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 160,727 born in 2025 was named Liseth
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Liseth
- #9457
- Liseth on the 2025 chart
- #865
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Liseth went to 10 girls in 2025, but Lizeth is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 95, which makes it the 865th most-given girls’ name of the year — 8,592 places above the chart.
- Lizeth85
- Liseth10
About 1 girl in 16,919 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 160,727 for Liseth 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 Ceceilia test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Liseth's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Ceceilia climbed just as high around 1956, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Ceceilia's path sketches the road Liseth is walking now.
Liseth 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
Liseth beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Liseth in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Lis works as a short form.
- Elizabeth is available as the parent name.
- Six letters and two syllables, compact and clear in Spanish.
- Spanish and English say the ending completely differently.
- Lisseth and Liset compete as spellings.
- It is unfamiliar outside Colombian and Ecuadorian communities.
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Frequently asked
- How many Liseths are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Liseth are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Liseth?
- Liseth is one of 2 recorded spellings. Lizeth is the more common one — 85 births in 2025 against 10 for Liseth.
- How popular is the name Liseth in 2025?
- Liseth ranks #9457 among US girl names in 2025, with 10 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Liseth?
- About 1 in every 160,727 US girls born in 2025 was named Liseth — 10 in all.
- Will my child share the name Liseth with classmates?
- Liseth will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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