Lizette
Feminine · “my God is an oath”
Lizette is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 12,122 girls against 5 boys since 1880.
Lizette adds the French -ette to Liz, and -ette is one of the few foreign suffixes English uses freely on its own words.
How old is the name Lizette?
Lizette first appears in US birth records in 1889 — 136 years ago. The typical Lizette alive today was born around 1993, making them about 32 years old. About 11,500 people named Lizette are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Lizette most popular?
Lizette peaked in 1999, reaching #511 nationally. Today it ranks #4661, 4,150 places below that high. See the whole 1999 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Lizette
Ours, offered as ours. English borrowed -ette from French and then did something French would not: attached it to native words. Kitchenette, launderette, novelette, statuette and leatherette are all English inventions using a French ending, and the suffix carries a faint sense of small and sometimes of imitation. On a name it means only small and affectionate, which is what it originally did — Lizette is little Liz and nothing more complicated.
Meaning
my God is an oath
From Hebrew Elisheva through Elizabeth; the French diminutive -ette, meaning small, is added to the clipped form. The z is an English respelling of the French s in Lisette.
Pronouncing Lizette
lih-ZET
Two syllables with the stress on the second. There is little variation.
Nicknames for Lizette
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
- 1889
- Most girls named
- 1989412 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #511reached in 1999
- Change vs 2023
- −31.0%29 in 2025, from 42
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.
Lizette in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Lisette in French — spelling variant
- Elizabeth in English — related form
- Liset in Spanish — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, New York.
Lizettes among us
people named Lizette are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 55,423 born in 2025 was named Lizette
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Lizette
- #4661
- Lizette on the 2025 chart
- #902
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Lizette went to 29 girls in 2025, but Lisette is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 58, which makes it the 902nd most-given girls’ name of the year — 3,759 places above the chart.
- Lisette29
- Lizette29
About 1 girl in 27,712 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 55,423 for Lizette 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 Vivien test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Lizette's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Vivien climbed just as high around 1911, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Vivien's path sketches the road Lizette is walking now.
Lizette 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
Where Lizette is headed
Lizette should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Lizette beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Lizette in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning with one of Europe's largest name families behind it.
- Liz and Lizzy are both established short forms with long records.
- Elizabeth stands behind it as a fuller formal option.
- Lisette is the French spelling and both are in use.
- Seven letters and two syllables, manageable but not short.
- It is close to Lissette, Lizeth and Lisbeth in an American ear.
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Frequently asked
- How many Lizettes are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 11,500 people named Lizette are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Lizette?
- Lizette is one of 2 recorded spellings. Lisette is the more common one — 29 births in 2025 against 29 for Lizette.
- How popular is the name Lizette in 2025?
- Lizette ranks #4661 among US girl names in 2025, with 29 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Lizette?
- About 1 in every 55,423 US girls born in 2025 was named Lizette — 29 in all.
- Will my child share the name Lizette with classmates?
- Lizette will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Lizette
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