Liz

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Liz: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Liz: Recorded since 1958, it reached #291 in 1967, and it stood at #325 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
55times a registrar ranked it
68years from first to last
#291highest recorded position
15groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2000–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2000	#3912
2003	#4373
2004	#2802
2007	#3218
2010	#5707
2011	#5785
2014	#5691
2015	#5730
2016	#4763
2017	#4763
2018	#5666
2019	#2643
2020	#2042
2021	#1454
2022	#1326
2023	#1575
2024	#1302

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in 27 of the 37 years from 1958 to 1994.

In 2024: #441 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1302 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1958–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1958
First recorded at #342 among girls in Norway in 1958 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1958–1994
Highest recorded position: #291 among girls in Norway, in 1967 (recorded 1958–1994).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #325 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Liz appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 27 years beginning in 1958, and has registered 183 births with the name.

Liz across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Liz's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Girls	#342 (1958)	#291 (1967)	#643 (1994)	27 of 37	183 (1958–1994)	12 (1967)
England and Wales · Girls	#3912 (2000)	#1302 (2024)	#1302 (2024)	17 of 25	152 (2000–2024)	25 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#677 (2004)	#325 (2025)	#325 (2025)	11 of 22	60 (2004–2025)	12 (2025)

Liz by decade in Norway · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Liz in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1950s	18	2 of 10	9
1960sbusiest	61	9 of 10	7
1970s	53	8 of 10	7
1980s	39	6 of 10	7
1990s	12	2 of 10	6

Across Norway · Girls, the 1960s were its busiest decade — the 9 years of it this list covers, averaging 7 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Liz appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1958 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #291 in Norway in 1967.

Liz's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#1302	25	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1575	19	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1326	24	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1454	21	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2042	13	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2643	9	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#5666	3	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#4763	4	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#4763	4	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#5730	3	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#5691	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#5707	3	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#3218	6	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2802	6	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#4373	3	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3912	3	High	Verified
1994	Norway	female	#643	4	High	Verified
1991	Norway	female	#472	8	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#627	5	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#575	6	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#481	8	High	Verified
1985	Norway	female	#487	8	High	Verified
1982	Norway	female	#648	4	High	Verified
1981	Norway	female	#444	8	High	Verified
1979	Norway	female	#643	4	High	Verified
1978	Norway	female	#399	9	High	Verified
1976	Norway	female	#563	5	High	Verified
1975	Norway	female	#556	5	High	Verified
1974	Norway	female	#462	7	High	Verified
1973	Norway	female	#492	6	High	Verified
1972	Norway	female	#352	11	High	Verified
1970	Norway	female	#495	6	High	Verified
1969	Norway	female	#458	6	High	Verified
1968	Norway	female	#508	5	High	Verified
1967	Norway	female	#291	12	High	Verified
1966	Norway	female	#525	4	High	Verified
1964	Norway	female	#521	4	High	Verified
1963	Norway	female	#303	11	High	Verified
1962	Norway	female	#510	4	High	Verified
1961	Norway	female	#369	7	High	Verified
1960	Norway	female	#355	8	High	Verified
1959	Norway	female	#309	10	High	Verified
1958	Norway	female	#342	8	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#325	12	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#441	8	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#495	7	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#420	9	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#661	5	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#834	3	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#873	3	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#750	4	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#894	3	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#910	3	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#677	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1958 and 2025, ranked in 46 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #291, first reached in 1967.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 25 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

Its record falls into 14 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 5 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2000, and 46 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Liyana · #164, 21y
Liyanah · #1302, 14y
Liza · #220, 55y
Lizzie · #397, 30y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Nada · #292, 46y
Ailis · #293, 46y
Marissa · #294, 44y
Magda · #295, 46y

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1950 and 1959.

Margarita · #291, 62y
Nada · #292, 46y
Gorm · #289, 31y
Kestutis · #293, 33y

Liz was ranked #291 in Norway · Girls in 1967. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Liz and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Liz without appearing here.

Liz moved ahead of

Jeanette Compare
In 2023 they stood at #5666 and #5666 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1302 and #5891.
Cheryl Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2643 and #2286 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2042 and #5493.
Cooper Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2643 and #2643 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2042 and #5493.
Debra Compare
In 2019 they stood at #5691 and #4684 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2042 and #5493.

Moved ahead of Liz

Blake Compare
In 2010 they stood at #3218 and #5201 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #5785 and #2893.
Eabha Compare
In 2009 they stood at #2802 and #4598 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #5707 and #3156.
Melissa Compare
In 1978 they stood at #399 and #402 in Norway · Girls; by 1979 that had become #643 and #326.
Maya Compare
In 1993 they stood at #472 and #479 in Norway · Girls; by 1994 that had become #643 and #328.

Moved the opposite way to Liz

Anette Compare
Between 1958 and 1994 in Norway · Girls, Liz went from #342 to #643 while Anette went from #197 to #50.
Camilla Compare
Between 1958 and 1994 in Norway · Girls, Liz went from #342 to #643 while Camilla went from #374 to #6.
Cathrine Compare
Between 1958 and 1994 in Norway · Girls, Liz went from #342 to #643 while Cathrine went from #313 to #61.
Cecilie Compare
Between 1958 and 1994 in Norway · Girls, Liz went from #342 to #643 while Cecilie went from #146 to #30.

Moved the same way as Liz

Anita Compare
Between 1958 and 1994 in Norway · Girls, Liz went from #342 to #643 and Anita from #20 to #107.
Ann Compare
Between 1958 and 1994 in Norway · Girls, Liz went from #342 to #643 and Ann from #27 to #126.
Anne Compare
Between 1958 and 1994 in Norway · Girls, Liz went from #342 to #643 and Anne from #1 to #28.
Åse Compare
Between 1958 and 1994 in Norway · Girls, Liz went from #342 to #643 and Åse from #38 to #185.

What's not yet available

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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1958 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #291 in Norway in 1967. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Liz

Liz at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Liz across 3 official records

Liz by decade in Norway · Girls

Liz appears in

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Liz at a glance

Liz across 3 official records

Liz by decade in Norway · Girls

Liz appears in

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1950s

Names published alongside Liz

Liz and the names beside it

Liz moved ahead of

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