Lisbet
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Pet form of Elizabeth
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/lizβet/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lisbet is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.
- PEPeru≈1 in 13K(inferred from the name graph)
- VEVenezuela1 in 14K
- USUnited States1 in 209K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Sources
- 170 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)
3,767 people
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Pet form of Elizabeth. Lisette ° French diminutive form of Lise, which is itself a shortened form of Elisabeth.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lisbet 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | — | 3,767 | 1 in 2.7K | 3.8K | Lisbet | 7 |
| PE Peru | #942 | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Lisbet | 48 |
| DK Denmark | — | 2,114 | 1 in 2.8K | 2.1K | — | 1 |
| VE Venezuela | #940 | 2,002 | 1 in 14K | 2K | Lisbet | 30 |
| US United States | — | 1,592 | 1 in 209K | 1.6K | Lisbet | 170 |
| NO Norway | — | 756 | 1 in 7.2K | 2.8K | Lisbet | 8 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #699 | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Lisbet | 13 |
| FI Finland | — | 449 | 1 in 12K | 722 | Lisbet | 1 |
| IS Iceland | — | 70 | 1 in 5K | 70 | — | — |
3,767 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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: asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Lisbet is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Danish, a female given name, a less common spelling of Lisbeth
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, Lisbet är en förkortad form av → Elisabeth, vanlig i äldre tid i Sverige. I både den rikssvenska och finlandssvenska almanackan 19 november.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
English and Scandinavian: shortened form of ELIZABETH or Elisabet , now in fairly wide use as an independent given name.
as a word
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)
- Lisbet Palmeb. 1931SESwedish children's psychologist, married to Olof Palme between 1956–1986 (1931–2018)
- Lisbet Calnerb. 1939SESwedish politician
- Lisbeth Dahlb. 1946DKnot in their usual nameDanish actress
- Lisbet Holtedahlb. 1946NONorwegian film director and professor
- Lisbet Hiideb. 1956NONorwegian writer (1956-)
- Lisbet Rausingb. 1960SESwedish philanthropist and historian of science
- Lisbet Koldingb. 1965DKDanish association football player (1965-)
- Lisbet Rugtvedtb. 1967NONorwegian politician
- Lisbet Puttonenb. 1970FIFinnish politician (1970-)
- Lisbet Jakobsenb. 1987DKDanish rower
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 47 sources across 27 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Lisbet?
- In the etymology graph, Elizabeth, Lisa and Isabel are forms of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Lisbet mean?
- Recorded meaning: Pet form of Elizabeth.
- Where does the name Lisbet come from?
- Pet form of Elizabeth. Lisette ° French diminutive form of Lise, which is itself a shortened form of Elisabeth. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- How do you pronounce Lisbet?
- A machine transcription gives /lizβet/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Lisbet a male or female name?
- Lisbet is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Lisbet have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 3.8 thousand people named Lisbet, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lisbet.
- Where is Lisbet most common?
- Lisbet is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.7 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Lisbet?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 3,767 people named Lisbet, about 1 in 2.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Lisbet compared with other names?
- In the Dominican Republic, Lisbet is the 699th most common given name of 44,971 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lisbetThe 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, “Lisbet” — the 699th most common given name in Dominican Republic. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.