Elizabeth

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Elizabeth is a given name, most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is the 36th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Elizabeth is a timeless and classic name of Hebrew origin meaning 'God is my oath'.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 48◐
  • PTPortugal1 in 160
  • FRFrance1 in 179

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈2.6M ●

across 11 countries

#29 ●

of 16M given names

9 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
612 ●

23M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 48 ◐

Sweden

Spellings & scripts●

ElizabethLatin · English●14M records
ЕлизаветаCyrillic · Russian●3M records
אליזבטHebrew · Hebrew●23K records
ᲔლიზავეტაGeorgian · Georgian●3.5K records
ΕλισαβετGreek · Greek●2.1K records
ኤልሳቤጥEthiopic · Amharic●163 records
อลิซาเบธThai · Thai●138 records
사벨Hangul · Korean●15 records
ԵլիզավետաArmenian · Armenian●6 records

11 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Isabel in BR Brazil, AR Argentina, ES Spain and 8 more, Elisabeth in NL Netherlands, DE Germany, SE Sweden and 2 more, Елизавета in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, TR Türkiye and 1 more and Isabelle in FR France.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

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.

Sources 1

  • Biblical Names Compiled Database

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Elizabeth is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#363,415,3782M rec.—8.4KIsabel148
RU Russia#662,876,0301M rec.—#27Елизавета190
MX Mexico#291,404,5161.1M rec.—4.7KIsabel234
US United States#251,205,54012M rec.1 in 2761.2MElizabeth612
GB United Kingdom#231,004,717849K rec.—1.7KElizabeth311
PE Peru#25943,282655K rec.—107KIsabel117
UA Ukraine#80595,876598K rec.—listedЄлизавета60
VE Venezuela#43560,871302K rec.—48KIsabel102
AU Australia#27520,451393K rec.—664Elizabeth314
CL Chile#22497,07423K rec.—2.2KIsabel135
FR France#7378,2951.4M rec.1 in 179378KIsabelle416
BR Brazil#87358,542△168K rec.1 in 590359KIsabel203

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English14M52%
  • Spanish7.6M28%
  • Portuguese1.3M5%
  • 988K4%
  • Swahili434K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English14,306,07452%
Spanish7,647,51328%
Portuguese1,345,6995%
988,0294%
Swahili434,0502%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Elizabeth is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name10.0M records spelled Elizabeth33 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, United States

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written Elízabeth, Elizábeth, Ëlïzäbëth, Elïzäbëth, Elìzabeth

  • a separate given name1.1M records spelled Elizabeth3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Italy

    Also written Élizabeth, Elízabeth

  • Indonesian given name49K records spelled Elizabeth5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, United States, Philippines, Peru

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Elizabeth, Elizabeth', Elízabeth

  • Hungarian given name33K records spelled Elizabeth8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Hungary, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Elizabëth, Elizábéth, Élízábéth, Elizäbëth, Elízabeth

94 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

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.

Over time●

010K20K30K19001950200021K · 1990

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Elizabeth in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–2025
Yearrecords
18801,939
18811,852
18822,186
18832,255
18842,549
18852,582
18862,680
18872,681
18883,224
18893,058
18903,112
18913,059
18923,461
18933,360
18943,425
18953,603
18963,471
18973,442
18983,659
18993,287
19004,096
19013,216
19023,694
19033,724
19043,833
19054,121
19064,320
19074,624
19084,904
19095,176
19105,800
19116,298
19128,527
19139,505
191411,367
191514,103
191614,940
191715,131
191815,853
191915,287
192015,908
192115,800
192215,244
192315,459
192414,950
192513,936
192612,837
192712,523
192811,767
192911,248
193010,995
193110,292
19329,999
19339,016
19349,346
19359,075
19368,860
19379,385
19389,803
19399,709
19409,955
194110,267
194211,186
194311,644
194411,034
194510,343
194611,753
194713,440
194813,215
194913,714
195014,334
195115,118
195216,022
195316,099
195416,584
195516,696
195616,355
195717,492
195818,535
195918,421
196018,859
196118,855
196217,806
196317,598
196417,294
196516,321
196615,887
196716,116
196814,887
196915,297
197015,108
197113,606
197212,182
197312,360
197412,259
197512,472
197613,547
197716,431
197816,807
197918,073
198019,529
198120,168
198220,506
198319,842
198420,360
198520,545
198619,074
198718,608
198820,042
198920,298
199020,750
199120,395
199219,035
199317,559
199416,786
199516,192
199616,003
199715,430
199815,193
199915,350
200015,117
200114,792
200214,621
200314,123
200413,577
200512,743
200612,440
200713,071
200812,027
200911,057
201010,283
201110,109
20129,730
20139,476
20149,600
20159,771
20169,607
20179,004
20188,600
20197,923
20207,308
20217,265
20227,020
20236,616
20246,924
20256,760

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

17001800190020002100Elizabeth I of Russia, b. 1709Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, b. 1900Julie Andrews, b. 1935Anne, Princess Royal, b. 1950Helen Hunt, b. 1963Tina Fey, b. 1970Zara Tindall, b. 1981Catherine, Princess of Wales, b. 1982Princess Beatrice of York, b. 1988Emma Myers, b. 2002
  • Elizabeth I of Russiab. 1709RUsixth Empress of Russia from 1741 to 1762 (lived 1709-1762)
  • Queen Elizabeth The Queen Motherb. 1900GBQueen consort of the United Kingdom from 1936 to 1952 (1900–2002)
  • Julie Andrewsb. 1935GBnot in their usual nameBritish actress, singer and author (born 1935)
  • Anne, Princess Royalb. 1950GBnot in their usual namedaughter of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
  • Helen Huntb. 1963USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
  • Tina Feyb. 1970USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress, comedian, writer, producer, and playwright
  • Zara Tindallb. 1981GBnot in their usual nameBritish Olympic equestrian; daughter of Anne, Princess Royal
  • Catherine, Princess of Walesb. 1982GBnot in their usual namemember of the British Royal Family and princess of Wales since 2022
  • Princess Beatrice of Yorkb. 1988GBnot in their usual nameelder daughter of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Sarah Ferguson
  • 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).

Evidence●

Attested in 151 sources across 83 countries.

Official registers attesting Elizabeth
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.2M#18
PE PeruRENIEC — DNI population names2019107K#9
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202270K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—70K#430
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—55K#741
HN HondurasRNP — cumulative registry names202250K#2
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—28K#92
DO Dominican RepublicJCE — Nombres más registrados (annual)202523K#5
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202423K#90
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—13K#466
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—11K#43
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—11K#254

Reference works 5

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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 2026-09-12 data build · 2,117 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Elizabeth?
We estimate roughly 2.6 million people bear Elizabeth (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Elizabeth have the most bearers?
Elizabeth is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled isabel.
Where is Elizabeth most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Elizabeth is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 48 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
How common is Elizabeth compared with other names?
In Argentina, Elizabeth is the 36th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
Is Elizabeth a male or female name?
Elizabeth 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.
What does the name Elizabeth mean?
Recorded meaning: Elizabeth is a timeless and classic name of Hebrew origin meaning 'God is my oath.'
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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” — the 36th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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