Primarily a girl's name · 100% girls
Origin: FrenchElizabeth is a feminine given name, a variation of the Hebrew name Elisheva, meaning "My God is an oath" or "My God is abundance", as rendered in the Septuagint.
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In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Elizabeth yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.
Elizabeth carries the widest gap in this batch between its rank peak and its count peak: the rank hit #3, its best ever, in 1887 — seven years into the dataset — while the raw count didn't peak until 1990, when a single year brought 20,749 births — a 103-year gap between the two milestones.
Total births run to 1,687,089 since 1880, and the 2024 figure of 6,878 marks a 28% decline from ten years earlier, landing at #17.
Two English queens (Elizabeth I, Elizabeth II) sit alongside poet Emily Dickinson and actress Elizabeth Taylor on the famous-bearer list — a name whose royal association predates its American popularity by centuries, unlike most names in this batch whose namesakes are contemporaries of the parents choosing them.
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Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880 | 1,939 | #4 |
| 1881 | 1,852 | #4 |
| 1882 | 2,186 | #4 |
| 1883 | 2,255 | #4 |
| 1884 | 2,549 | #4 |
| 1885 | 2,582 | #4 |
| 1886 | 2,680 | #4 |
| 1887 | 2,681 | #3 |
| 1888 | 3,224 | #3 |
| 1889 | 3,058 | #3 |
| 1890 | 3,112 | #3 |
| 1891 | 3,059 | #4 |
| 1892 | 3,461 | #3 |
| 1893 | 3,360 | #5 |
| 1894 | 3,425 | #5 |
| 1895 | 3,603 | #5 |
| 1896 | 3,471 | #7 |
| 1897 | 3,442 | #6 |
| 1898 | 3,659 | #7 |
| 1899 | 3,287 | #7 |
| 1900 | 4,096 | #6 |
| 1901 | 3,216 | #6 |
| 1902 | 3,694 | #6 |
| 1903 | 3,724 | #6 |
| 1904 | 3,833 | #6 |
| 1905 | 4,121 | #6 |
| 1906 | 4,320 | #7 |
| 1907 | 4,624 | #7 |
| 1908 | 4,904 | #7 |
| 1909 | 5,176 | #7 |
| 1910 | 5,800 | #7 |
| 1911 | 6,298 | #7 |
| 1912 | 8,527 | #8 |
| 1913 | 9,505 | #8 |
| 1914 | 11,367 | #8 |
| 1915 | 14,103 | #8 |
| 1916 | 14,940 | #8 |
| 1917 | 15,131 | #8 |
| 1918 | 15,853 | #9 |
| 1919 | 15,287 | #8 |
| 1920 | 15,908 | #8 |
| 1921 | 15,800 | #10 |
| 1922 | 15,243 | #9 |
| 1923 | 15,460 | #9 |
| 1924 | 14,950 | #11 |
| 1925 | 13,936 | #10 |
| 1926 | 12,837 | #11 |
| 1927 | 12,523 | #13 |
| 1928 | 11,767 | #14 |
| 1929 | 11,248 | #15 |
| 1930 | 10,995 | #15 |
| 1931 | 10,292 | #16 |
| 1932 | 9,999 | #17 |
| 1933 | 9,016 | #17 |
| 1934 | 9,346 | #18 |
| 1935 | 9,075 | #17 |
| 1936 | 8,860 | #18 |
| 1937 | 9,385 | #17 |
| 1938 | 9,802 | #17 |
| 1939 | 9,709 | #18 |
| 1940 | 9,956 | #20 |
| 1941 | 10,268 | #21 |
| 1942 | 11,185 | #22 |
| 1943 | 11,644 | #23 |
| 1944 | 11,034 | #23 |
| 1945 | 10,343 | #26 |
| 1946 | 11,753 | #25 |
| 1947 | 13,439 | #25 |
| 1948 | 13,215 | #26 |
| 1949 | 13,714 | #25 |
| 1950 | 14,334 | #24 |
| 1951 | 15,118 | #23 |
| 1952 | 16,023 | #22 |
| 1953 | 16,098 | #21 |
| 1954 | 16,586 | #20 |
| 1955 | 16,697 | #21 |
| 1956 | 16,353 | #22 |
| 1957 | 17,491 | #22 |
| 1958 | 18,536 | #22 |
| 1959 | 18,422 | #21 |
| 1960 | 18,859 | #18 |
| 1961 | 18,855 | #19 |
| 1962 | 17,804 | #20 |
| 1963 | 17,597 | #20 |
| 1964 | 17,294 | #16 |
| 1965 | 16,323 | #16 |
| 1966 | 15,886 | #16 |
| 1967 | 16,116 | #13 |
| 1968 | 14,886 | #17 |
| 1969 | 15,295 | #16 |
| 1970 | 15,112 | #18 |
| 1971 | 13,605 | #19 |
| 1972 | 12,183 | #15 |
| 1973 | 12,358 | #13 |
| 1974 | 12,263 | #12 |
| 1975 | 12,473 | #15 |
| 1976 | 13,546 | #16 |
| 1977 | 16,431 | #13 |
| 1978 | 16,809 | #14 |
| 1979 | 18,075 | #11 |
| 1980 | 19,531 | #9 |
| 1981 | 20,169 | #9 |
| 1982 | 20,507 | #8 |
| 1983 | 19,842 | #10 |
| 1984 | 20,361 | #10 |
| 1985 | 20,545 | #9 |
| 1986 | 19,074 | #10 |
| 1987 | 18,608 | #10 |
| 1988 | 20,042 | #10 |
| 1989 | 20,298 | #10 |
| 1990 | 20,749 | #9 |
| 1991 | 20,395 | #9 |
| 1992 | 19,034 | #9 |
| 1993 | 17,559 | #9 |
| 1994 | 16,786 | #9 |
| 1995 | 16,192 | #10 |
| 1996 | 16,004 | #10 |
| 1997 | 15,428 | #9 |
| 1998 | 15,193 | #10 |
| 1999 | 15,350 | #10 |
| 2000 | 15,117 | #9 |
| 2001 | 14,792 | #9 |
| 2002 | 14,620 | #11 |
| 2003 | 14,122 | #9 |
| 2004 | 13,574 | #10 |
| 2005 | 12,742 | #11 |
| 2006 | 12,440 | #11 |
| 2007 | 13,070 | #10 |
| 2008 | 12,025 | #9 |
| 2009 | 11,055 | #11 |
| 2010 | 10,280 | #12 |
| 2011 | 10,106 | #11 |
| 2012 | 9,729 | #10 |
| 2013 | 9,474 | #10 |
| 2014 | 9,597 | #13 |
| 2015 | 9,766 | #13 |
| 2016 | 9,602 | #13 |
| 2017 | 8,999 | #13 |
| 2018 | 8,595 | #13 |
| 2019 | 7,920 | #14 |
| 2020 | 7,299 | #16 |
| 2021 | 7,261 | #14 |
| 2022 | 7,014 | #15 |
| 2023 | 6,600 | #15 |
| 2024 | 6,878 | #17 |
