Elisabeth

girls:

47.5k births since 1880

#597 (90th percentile)

boys:

27 births since 1979

#4559 (1st percentile)

overall:

47.5k births since 1880

#1115 (86th percentile)

Popularity Trends

The name Elisabeth is the #1,115 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 47,479 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 85.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 85.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #597 (89.6% percentile) for all time with 47,452 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,559 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 27 births since 1979.

Elisabeth has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1979 for boys).

The name Elisabeth has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.

For girls, Elisabeth reached its peak popularity in 2001, achieving the 69.0% percentile (ranked #279) with 552 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 552 births per million (ranked 69.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2001, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Elisabeth ranks #701 for girls (26.0% percentile) with 146 births per million, which is 26.4% of its peak share of births.

For boys, Elisabeth reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #748) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1989, with 5 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1989.

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Elisabeth".

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Key Statistics

Total Births
47,452
Peak Births
1,093
Peak Year
2001
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
69.0%
Current Percentile
26.0%
Peak Rank
#279
Current Rank
#701
Female statistics
Total Births
27
Peak Births
10
Peak Year
1989
First Recorded
1979
Peak Percentile
1.2%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#748
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Elisabeth

Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Elisabeth. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 44.2% confident that Elisabeth is pronounced as ih-LIH-zuh-behth, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ih-LIH-zuh-bihth, at 16.3% confidence, with 4 syllables.

ih-LIH-zuh-bihth (4 syllables)
Verified
16.3% confidence
IH0 L IH1 Z AH0 B IH0 TH
ih-LEE-suh-buhth (4 syllables)
7.0% confidence
IH0 L IY1 S AH0 B AH0 TH
ih-LUH-zuh-BEHTH (4 syllables)
4.7% confidence
IH0 L AH1 Z AH0 B EH1 TH

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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About Pronunciation Data

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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like IH0 L IH1 Z AH0 B EH0 TH) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.

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