Given name
Lisbet
“my God is bountiful”·“God is my oath”·“My God is bountiful”
Lisbet is a variant of Lisa. In English use, Lisa carries the interpretation “my God is bountiful.” In English use, Lisbet is a short form 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
Lisbet is a variant of Lisa. In English use, Lisa carries the interpretation “my God is bountiful.” In English use, Lisbet is a short form 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
In English use, Lisbet is a short form 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
In English use, Lisbet is a short form 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 1958. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. In English use, Lisbet is a short form 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
Lisbet through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 973
- 0 boys · 973 girls
- Most popular year
- 2002
- 132 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2019. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 132 in 2002. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,592 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.
Lisbet’s family of names
Lisbet is a short form of Elizabeth. Lisbet has a related form in Lisa. Lisbet is a form of Elizabeth.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Lisbet has relatives in 3 languages.
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Nicknames & forms 6
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 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Lisbet
- Lisbeth PalmeSwedish children's psychologist, married to Olof Palme between 1956–1986 (1931–2018)
- Lisbet Lundquistactressborn 1943
- Lisbet DahlDanish actressborn 1946
- Lisbet RausingSwedish philanthropist and historian of scienceborn 1960
- Lisbet JakobsenDanish rowerborn 1987
- Lisbet ArredondoCuban volleyball playerborn 1987
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