Lisbeth

Where Lisbeth comes from

Lisbeth hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1911
    First appearance
    #1,956 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1917
    Lisbeth Movin born
    Danish actress and film director
  3. 1948
    Lisbeth Korsmo born
    Norwegian speed skater and bicycle racer
  4. 2002
    Peak, #624
    409 babies named Lisbeth — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2005
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,340.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Lisbeth Korsmo · Norwegian speed skater and bicycle racer, 1948–2017
  • Lisbeth Movin · Danish actress and film director, 1917–2011
  • Lisbeth Zwerger · Austrian illustrator, born 1954
  • Lisbeth Berg-Hansen · Norwegian politician, born 1963
  • Lisbeth Bech Poulsen · Danish politician, born 1982

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.