girls:
39.3k births since 1880
#683 (88th percentile)
boys:
102 births since 1888
#4484 (2nd percentile)
overall:
39.4k births since 1880
#1251 (84th percentile)
The name Lizzie is the #1,251 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 39,427 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 83.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 83.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #683 (88.1% percentile) for all time with 39,325 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,484 (2.2% percentile) for all time with 102 births since 1888.
Lizzie has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1888 for boys).
The name Lizzie has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Lizzie reached its peak popularity in 1888, achieving the 75.6% percentile (ranked #70) with 3,130 births per million. The name was most common in 1882, with 4,279 births per million (ranked 73.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Lizzie ranks #861 for girls (9.1% percentile) with 52 births per million, which is 1.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Lizzie reached its peak popularity in 1909, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #266) with 40 births per million. The name was most common in 1899, with 52 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1940.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lizzie".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Lizzie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Lizzie is pronounced as LIH-zee, which has 2 syllables.
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