Lizzie
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 30 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/ˈlɪzi/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Lizzie is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 10K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 11K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 15K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Lizzie itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 375 (measured from records)
- 1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
≈35,000 named Lizzy, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Lizzy in ZA South Africa, NG Nigeria, NL Netherlands and 1 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Lizzie, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Lizzie 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈35,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.2K | listed | Lizzy | 52 |
| ZA South Africa | #559 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | — | Lizzy | 38 |
| US United States | — | 7,411 | 1 in 45K | 7.4K | Lizzie | 375 |
| GB United Kingdom | #930 | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 15K | 4 | Lizzie | 222 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 3,663as Lizzy | 1 in 4.7K | 3.7K | Lizzy | 57 |
| GH Ghana | #434 | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Lizzy | 13 |
| SE Sweden | — | 967 | 1 in 11K | 967 | Lizzie | 27 |
| DK Denmark | #933 | 579 | 1 in 10K | 579 | Lizzie | 38 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)Lizzie is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Lizzie är ursprungligen en engelsk smekform till → Elisabeth och → Alice.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
English: pet form of LIZ , with the hypocoristic suffix - ie . Variant: Lizzy .
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)- Lizzie Velasquezb. 1743USAmerican motivational speaker
- Lizzie Burnsb. 1827GBBritish activist
- Lizzie Bordenb. 1860USAmerican murder suspect (1860–1927)
- Lizzie Yu Der Lingb. 1881CNmultiracial historian of Chinese-American descent (1885-1944), Lady-in-waiting of Empress Dowager Cixi
- Lizzie Mickeryb. 1901GBBritish actor and writer
- Lizzie Bordenb. 1958USAmerican filmmaker (born 1958)
- Lizzie Fletcherb. 1975USAmerican politician (born 1975)
- Lizzie Brocheréb. 1985FRFrench actress
- Lizzie Freemanb. 1992USAmerican voice actress
- Lizzie Boysb. 2000CACanadian actress
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)48 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 30 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 Lizzie?
- In the etymology graph, Lisa, Isabel and Betty are forms of the same name in other languages; Lillia is a recorded short or pet form; it is recorded as a short form of Elizabeth and Elsabeth.
- What does the name Lizzie mean, and where does it come from?
- A diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Lizzie a male or female name?
- Lizzie is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), France (INSEE, 2024), Brazil (IBGE, 2022) and Denmark (Danmarks Statistik), among others.
- How common is the name Lizzie?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,411 people named Lizzie in 2020, about 1 in 45 thousand residents.
- How common is Lizzie compared with other names?
- In Ghana, Lizzie is the 434th most common given name of 14,081 given names recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Lizzie?
- It depends on the language: in English /ˈlɪzi/ (Wiktionary); in Spanish /liθθje/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Lizzie have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 35 thousand people named Lizzy in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Lizzie most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lizzie is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 10 thousand people — even though Nigeria holds more of our records for it.
What do you want to know about Lizzie?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lizzieThe 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, “Lizzie” — the 434th most common given name in Ghana. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.