girls:
9.9k births since 1930
#1603 (72nd percentile)
overall:
9.9k births since 1930
#2690 (65th percentile)
The name Liz is the #2,690 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 9,874 recorded births since 1930. This represents the 65.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 65.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,603 (72.0% percentile) for all time with 9,874 births since 1930.
Liz first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1930 (first recorded for girls in 1930). Birth data for Liz is available in 90 out of the 94 years between 1930 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Liz reached its peak popularity in 1960, achieving the 54.0% percentile (ranked #355) with 307 births per million. The name was most common in 1961, with 320 births per million (ranked 54.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Liz ranks #747 for girls (21.1% percentile) with 117 births per million, which is 36.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Liz".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Liz is pronounced as lihz, which has 1 syllables.
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