Given name
Elizabet
“God is my oath”·“My God is bountiful”
Elizabet is a variant of Elizabeth. “God is my oath” is the etymological interpretation given for Elisabeth, the same name in a different spelling. “My God is bountiful” is another recorded interpretation, but the two should be kept distinct rather than blended into one literal translation.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Elizabet is a variant of Elizabeth. “God is my oath” is the etymological interpretation given for Elisabeth, the same name in a different spelling. “My God is bountiful” is another recorded interpretation, but the two should be kept distinct rather than blended into one literal translation.
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Elizabet is a variant of Elizabeth. Elizabeth is the usual English spelling of Elisabeth. The related biblical forms connect it with the Hebrew name Elisheba, borne by Aaron’s wife.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
Elizabet is a variant of Elizabeth. The shared background comes through Elizabeth: English generally uses Elizabeth with a z, where many European languages retain Elisabeth with an s. Elisabeth is connected with Elisheba; its final element may have been reshaped through association with Hebrew shabbath, “sabbath.”
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1953. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Elizabet is a variant of Elizabeth. The history of Elizabeth gives this family its wider story. The New Testament Elisabeth is the mother of John the Baptist. English royal associations include Elizabeth I and, in the twentieth century, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon and her daughter Elizabeth II. Elizabeth’s familiar forms developed along several paths, including Eliza, Beth, Bess, Betty, Libby and Lizzie.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Elizabet through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,761
- 0 boys · 1,761 girls
- Most popular year
- 1989
- 445 babies
- 2025
- 7
- #12,273 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +15%
- Rising
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 7 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 12,273 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 445 in 1989. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,923 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Elizabet’s family of names
Elizabet has a related form in Elizabeth. In Portuguese usage, Elizabet has a related form in ELISABETE.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 44
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Isabellaequivalent
- Elizaequivalent
- Isabelleequivalent
- Isabelequivalent
- Izabellaequivalent
- Lisaequivalent
- Bettyequivalent
- Lizequivalent
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- Lizaequivalent
- Betsyequivalent
- Tinaequivalent
- Izabelequivalent
- Ilseequivalent
- Izabelaequivalent
- Lieslequivalent
- Lieselequivalent
- Ilsaequivalent
- Elspethequivalent
- Elisabetequivalent
- Betinaequivalent
- Bettinaequivalent
- Elisabettaequivalent
- Liseequivalent
- Elizabetaequivalent
- Yelizavetaequivalent
- Ilzeequivalent
- Liisaequivalent
- Lieseequivalent
- Tineequivalent
- Ilzaequivalent
- Elžbietaequivalent
- Élisabethequivalent
- Erzsébetequivalent
- Ealisaidequivalent
- Liesbethequivalent
- Elesbedequivalent
- Elżbietaequivalent
- Jelizavetaequivalent
- Alžbětaequivalent
- Elizabetoequivalent
- Елизаветаequivalent
- Liisiequivalent
- Ísabellaequivalent
- Eskeequivalent
People named Elizabet
- Elizabet TursynbaevaKazakhstani figure skaterborn 2000
- Elizabet InnehRomanian volleyball playerborn 1999
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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