Elisabeth is a variant of Elizabeth, which originated from the Hebrew Elischeva, meaning ‘My God is an oath’.
Elisabeth is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
The name Elisabeth isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Elisabeth ranks 694. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Elisabeth. In the entire USA, approximately 40,151 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Elisabeth. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
Elisabeth is a variant of Elizabeth, which originated from the Hebrew Elischeva, meaning ‘My God is an oath’.
The spelling with 's' is... the German and Dutch form, that also became popular in England and Scandinavian countries.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their daughter Elisabeth annualy. This means that there have been girls named Elisabeth who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus women named Elisabeth have consistently been special. Since 2000, however, the name has experienced a certain popularity: in 2001 it holds its present record at #271 in the ranking of the most popular girls' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Elisabeth was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Elisabeth has never been ranked higher than #271. In 2022, she rivaled the 880 names that preceded her on the list. In total, 272 girls named Elisabeth were born in that year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Elisabeth were born, there have been 760 newborns who were given this name.
The name Elisabeth may not be in the top rankings of the most popular girls’ names, but it is one of the few female given names, along with only 536 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Elisabeth is apparently especially popular in Massachusetts. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular women’s names here either, one in 2,011 women in Massachusetts is called Elisabeth. In total, that’s 1,892 women who feel addressed when the name Elisabeth is shouted loudly across Massachusetts and who ensure that their name makes it to #345 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common female names in this nice state. If you asked all women in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Elisabeth as the answer a total of 40,151 times. This places Elisabeth at #590 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular women’s names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living women across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Elisabeth as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter E is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for girls' names: 3.9% of all common girls' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.
With nine letters, the name Elisabeth is relatively long compared to other names. In fact, 5.6% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly nine letters. 92% of all first names are shorter, while not even 2.5% of all boys’ and girls’ names use ten or more letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 3.9%, E as the first letter in girls' names is almost as common as all 26 letters on average - and of all the girls' names that start with an E, Elizabeth is the most common.
If your name is Elisabeth and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Elisabeth, you can simply say:
Elephant
Lion
Igloo
Sun
Apple
Butterfly
Elephant
Tiger
Hat
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Elisabeth
Elisabeth
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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S
A
B
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T
H
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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L
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S
A
B
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T
H
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Elisabeth sounds like this:
