Lizzie

Where Lizzie comes from

From Liz + -ie.
— Wiktionary's entry for Lizzie
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1860
    Lizzie born
    American murder suspect
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #67 among girls — 388 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1882
    Peak, #62
    495 babies named Lizzie — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1949
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #523.
  5. 1989
    Lizzie Velasquez born
    American motivational speaker
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth.
Namesakes
  • Lizzie · American murder suspect, 1860–1927
  • Lizzie Velasquez · American motivational speaker, born 1989
  • Lizzie Brocheré · French actress, born 1985
  • Lizzie Doron · Israeli writer, born 1953
  • Lizzie van Zyl · South African child prisoner, 1894–1901

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.