Elizabeth
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Elizabeth is a timeless and classic name of Hebrew origin meaning 'God is my oath' (Biblical Names Compiled Database)
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 83 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/ɪˈlɪzəbəθ/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Elizabeth is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 1,206,652 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020, which ranks it 18th. Elizabeth is also written Елизавета in Cyrillic, אליזבט in Hebrew and ኤልሳቤጥ in Ethiopic.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 190(inferred from the name graph)
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 240
- PEPeru≈1 in 250
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Elizabeth itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #49 (measured from records)
- 9 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 675 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 194 (inferred from the name graph)
1,206,652 people, 2020
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Elizabeth in other scripts: Cyrillic, Hebrew, Ethiopic and 5 more
(measured from records)7 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Елизавета in RU Russia, FI Finland and Elisabeth in SE Sweden, AT Austria.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
How to pronounce Elizabeth
- English:/ɪˈlɪzəbəθ/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
- Spanish:/e.li.saˈβ̞eð̞/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Elizabeth is a timeless and classic name of Hebrew origin meaning 'God is my oath.' In the Bible, Elizabeth was a woman of great faith and righteousness, the mother of John the Baptist and a relative of Mary, the mother of Jesus. The name carries connotations of grace, devotion, and blessedness.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Elizabeth, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Elizabeth counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #27 | 1,206,652 | 1 in 276 | 1.2M | Elizabeth | 675 |
| NG Nigeria | #21 | ≈900,000 est. | ≈1 in 258 | — | Elizabeth | 144 |
| RU Russia | #65 | ≈550,000 est. | ≈1 in 263 | register #27 | Елизавета | 216 |
| GB United Kingdom | #22 | ≈360,000 est. | ≈1 in 194 | 706 | Elizabeth | 411 |
| PH Philippines | #68 | ≈310,000 est. | ≈1 in 378 | — | Elizabeth | 158 |
| SE Sweden | #27 | 210,621as Elisabeth | 1 in 48 | 211K | Elisabeth | 134 |
| AT Austria | #19 | ≈60,000 est. | ≈1 in 153 | 13K | Elisabeth | 178 |
| FI Finland | — | 25,348as Elisabet | 1 in 220 | 58K | Елизавета | 54 |
| NZ New Zealand | #23 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 239 | 10 | Elizabeth | 201 |
1,206,652 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; ONS — Baby names England and Wales (2024); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Elizabeth is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
The name Elizabeth is the Greek form of the Hebrew name 'Elisheva' (אֱלִישֶׁבַע), which means 'My God is an oath' or 'God is my oath'.
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
In English, Hebrew ‘my God is satisfaction’; honored in the New Testament and for St Elizabeth of Hungary.
as a nameIrish first names
In English, A female given name from Hebrew, popular since the 16th century.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, Forme anglaise d’Élisabeth, hébreu « Dieu est serment ».
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In English, Hebrew; from the Bible, see Isabel
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Queen Elizabeth The Queen Motherb. 1900GBQueen consort of the United Kingdom from 1936 to 1952 (1900–2002)
- Catherine, Princess of Walesb. 1982GBnot in their usual namemember of the British Royal Family and princess of Wales since 2022
- Emma Myersb. 2002USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (born 2002)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)155 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 83 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Elizabeth?
- In the etymology graph, Lisa, Isabel and Liliana are forms of the same name in other languages; Betty, Beth and Liz are recorded short or pet forms.
- Where does the name Elizabeth come from?
- Elizabeth is a timeless and classic name of Hebrew origin meaning 'God is my oath.' In the Bible, Elizabeth was a woman of great faith and righteousness, the mother of John the Baptist and a relative… Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database.
- Is Elizabeth a male or female name?
- Elizabeth is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Peru (RENIEC, 2019), Brazil (IBGE, 2022) and Honduras (RNP, 2022), among others.
- What does the name Elizabeth mean?
- Recorded meaning: Elizabeth is a timeless and classic name of Hebrew origin meaning 'God is my oath.'
- Which countries have the most people named Elizabeth?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.2 million people named Elizabeth, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled elizabeth. After it come Nigeria, Russia, United Kingdom and Philippines; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Elizabeth?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,206,652 people named Elizabeth in 2020, about 1 in 276 residents.
- How common is Elizabeth compared with other names?
- In the United States, Elizabeth is the 27th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Elizabeth?
- It depends on the language: in English /ɪˈlɪzəbəθ/ (Wiktionary); in Spanish /e.li.saˈβ̞eð̞/ (Wiktionary).
What do you want to know about Elizabeth?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/elizabethThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Elizabeth” — ranked 18th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.