Maryelizabeth
Feminine · “Miriam with Hebrew Elisheba”
The two women meet in the first chapter of Luke. Mary, newly pregnant, travels to the hill country to see her older cousin Elizabeth, who is also pregnant, and the child in Elizabeth's womb moves. The scene is called the Visitation and it has been painted for fifteen hundred years. The compound name puts both women in one word.
How old is the name Maryelizabeth?
Maryelizabeth first appears in US birth records in 1906 — 119 years ago. The typical Maryelizabeth alive today was born around 1990, making them about 35 years old. About 1,800 people named Maryelizabeth are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Maryelizabeth most popular?
Maryelizabeth peaked in 1913, reaching #1601 nationally. Today it ranks #8362, 6,761 places below that high. See the whole 1913 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Miriam to Maryelizabeth
The story of Maryelizabeth
The Visitation is Luke's own construction and it does a specific piece of work. Elizabeth is old, barren and the wife of a priest; Mary is young, unmarried and from Nazareth. Putting them together lets Luke connect the birth of John to the birth of Jesus and gives Mary the Magnificat, the song that begins my soul magnifies the Lord and turns into a statement about the powerful being pulled from their thrones. The pairing became a fixture of Christian art and of Marian devotion, and the two names together carry it. That the American record shows the compound as one word is an artifact of how the data is collected: middle names are not recorded, so a family who wrote Mary Elizabeth on two lines and one who wrote it on one appear as different names or as one name and none.
Meaning
Miriam with Hebrew Elisheba, my God is an oath
Mary is from Hebrew Miriam, whose meaning is genuinely unknown despite many proposals. Elizabeth is from Elisheba, from el, God, and sheva, an oath or the number seven, usually read as my God is an oath or God is abundance. Elisheba is the name of Aaron's wife in Exodus and of the mother of John the Baptist in Luke. The compound is an American formation, recorded as a single word by the Social Security data. It peaks in 1913.
How the name formed
- Miriam
- Mary
- Maryelizabeth
Related forms: Maria Isabel · Mariaelisabetta
Pronouncing Maryelizabeth
MAIR-ee-ih-LIZ-uh-beth
Six syllables, with the main stress on the fourth and a secondary stress on the first. Written as one word it is said as one; written as two it takes a pause and two separate stresses.
Nicknames for Maryelizabeth
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
- 1906
- Most girls named
- 198549 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1601reached in 1913
- Change vs 2023
- +20.0%12 in 2025, from 10
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.
Maryelizabeth in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Maria Isabel in Spanish — same name
- Mariaelisabetta in Italian — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas.
Maryelizabeths among us
people named Maryelizabeth are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 133,939 born in 2025 was named Maryelizabeth
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
Fashion outlook
Maryelizabeth 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
Maryelizabeth beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Maryelizabeth in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Both elements are among the most used names in Western history.
- Either half works alone, and each has several short forms.
- The pairing has a specific and documented scriptural source.
- Six syllables is very long for everyday use.
- It is more often written as two words, and records will vary.
- It is strongly associated with the early twentieth century.
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Frequently asked
- How many Maryelizabeths 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 Maryelizabeth are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Maryelizabeth in 2025?
- Maryelizabeth ranks #8362 among US girl names in 2025, with 12 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Maryelizabeth?
- About 1 in every 133,939 US girls born in 2025 was named Maryelizabeth — 12 in all.
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- Maryelizabeth will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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