Elizabeth



Gender:
Origin: Hebrew
2682 famous people named Elizabeth found on Wikipedia.
1638079 female, 5181 male in US.
Most recent ranking: 13-th in year 2018
Best ranking: 3-th in year 1892
Used in: Biblical, English

Meanings

A female given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “oath of God.”.


Elizabeth is a feminine given name derived from the Ancient Greek Ἐλισάβετ (Elisabet, Modern Greek pronunciation Elisávet), which is a form of the Hebrew name Elisheva (אֱלִישֶׁבַע‎), meaning "My God is an oath" or "My God is abundance," as rendered in the Septuagint.


Fem. proper name, Biblical name of the wife of Aaron, from Late Latin Elisabeth, from Greek Eleisabeth, Eleisabet, from Hebrew Elishebha "God is an oath," the second element said by Klein to be related to shivah (fem. sheva) "seven," and to nishba "he swore," originally "he bound himself by (the sacred number) seven." Has never ranked lower than 26th in popularity among the names given to baby girls in the U.S. in any year since 1880, the oldest for which a reliable list is available. The city in New Jersey is named for Lady Elizabeth Carteret (d.1697), wife of one of the first proprietors of the colony.


Means: oath of God, my God is a vow. Form of Isabelle.

Famous People: 2682 found on Wikipedia.
Popularity Name Birth Year Description
1 Elizabeth II 1926 Queen of the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, and head of the Commonwealth of Nations
2 Elizabeth I of England 1533 Queen regnant of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until 1603
3 Elizabeth Olsen 1989 American actress
4 Elizabeth Banks 1974 American actress
5 Elizabeth Warren 1949 28th United States Senator from Massachusetts
6 Elizabeth Hurley 1965 English model and actress
7 Elizabeth Debicki 1990 Australian actress
8 Elizabeth Montgomery 1933 Actress
9 Elizabeth of York 1466 Queen of England
10 Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton 1757 Philanthropist, wife of Alexander Hamilton
11 Erzsébet Báthory 1560 Hungarian countess known for being a serial killer
12 Elizabeth Woodville 1437 Queen consort of England
13 Shannon Elizabeth 1973 Actress
14 Elizabeth Holmes 1984 American business executive
15 Elizabeth Berkley 1972 American actress
16 Elizabeth Gillies 1993 American actress, singer and dancer
17 Elizabeth McGovern 1961 American film, television, and theater actor, and musician
18 Miss Elizabeth 1960 American professional wrestling manager
19 Elizabeth Smart 1987 American activist
20 Elizabeth Rodriguez 1980 American actress
21 Elizabeth Trump 1880 German-American businesswoman
22 Elizabeth Perkins 1960 Actress
23 Elizabeth Peña 1959 American actress and director
24 Elizabeth Daily 1961 Voice actress, actress, singer, songwriter, musician
25 Elizabeth Henstridge 1987 English actress
26 Elizabeth Reaser 1975 American actress
27 Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1815 Suffragist and Women's Rights activist
28 Elizabeth Gilbert 1969 American writer
29 Elizabeth Marvel 1969 American actress
30 Elizabeth Vargas 1962 US female television journalist
31 Elizabeth Swann Fictional character
32 Elizabeth of Russia 1709 Empress of Russia
33 Elizabeth Jagger 1984 English model and actress
34 Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806 English poet, author
35 Elizabeth Dole 1936 U.S. Senator and Secretary of Transportation
36 Elizabeth Truss 1975 British Conservative Party politician
37 Elizabeth Arden 1878 Canadian American businesswoman
38 Elizabeth Ashley 1939 American actress
39 Elizabeth Blackwell 1821 England-born American physician, abolitionist, women's rights activist
40 Elizabeth Gutiérrez 1979 American actress
41 Elizabeth Bennet Pride and Prejudice character
42 Elizabeth Blount 1500 Mistress of Henry VIII
43 Elizabeth Hartman 1943 Actress
44 Elizabeth Fraser 1963 Scottish singer
45 Elizabeth Bracco 1957 American actress
46 Elizabeth Gaskell 1810 Novelist
47 Elizabeth Bishop 1911 American poet
48 Elizabeth Ann Seton 1774 First native-born American saint of the Roman Catholic Church
49 Elizabeth Berridge 1962 American film and theatre actress
50 Elizabeth Edwards 1949 Deceased wife of John Edwards
51 Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia 1596 Czech queen
52 Elizabeth Stride 1843 Whitechapel murder victim
53 Elizabeth Blackmore 1987 Australian actress
54 Elizabeth May 1954 Canadian politician
55 Elizabeth Freeman 1742 American former slave and abolitionist
56 Elizabeth Lail 1992 Actress
57 Elizabeth Fry 1780 Social reformer from England
58 Elizabeth Haysom 1964 American murderer
59 Elizabeth Raleigh 1565 English lady-in-waiting
60 Elizabeth Dennehy 1960 American actress
61 Elizabeth Mother of John the Baptist and the wife of Zacharias/Zachary, according to the Gospel of Luke
62 Elizabeth Garrett Anderson 1836 English physician and feminist
63 Elizabeth LeCompte 1944 American director of theater, dance and media
64 Elizabeth Gracen 1961 American actress
65 Elizabeth Tudor 1492 Princess
66 Elizabeth Eckford 1941 Part of the Little Rock Nine
67 Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire 1480 English noble
68 Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire 1759 Duchess of Devonshire
69 Elizabeth Loftus 1944 American cognative psychologist
70 Elizabeth Ann Blaesing 1919 Illegitimate daughter of an American President
71 Elizabeth Wilson 1921 Actress
72 Elizabeth Alda 1960 American actress
73 Elizabeth Glaser 1947
74 Elizabeth Rees-Williams 1936 British socialite
75 Elizabeth Colbert Busch 1954 American businesswoman
76 Elizabeth Catlett 1915 American-born Mexican sculptor and printmaker
77 Elizabeth Webber
78 Elizabeth Eden 1946 American trans woman
79 Elizabeth Strout 1956 American writer
80 Elizabeth George 1949 American woman mystery and thriller writer
81 Elizabeth Keener 1966 American actress
82 Elizabeth Hendrickson 1979 American actress
83 Elizabeth Barnard 1608 Granddaughter of William Shakespeare
84 Elizabeth Allen 1929 American actress
85 Elizabeth Blackburn 1948 Australian-born American biological researcher
86 Elizabeth of Hungary 1207 Christian saint
87 Elizabeth Bacon Custer 1842 Wife of General Custer, journalist, memoirist
88 Elizabeth Holloway Marston 1893 Psychologist
89 Elizabeth Vernaci 1961 Argentinian announcer
90 Elizabeth Carling 1967 English actress
91 Elizabeth Siddal 1829 Pre-Raphaelite model, poet and artist
92 Elizabeth Meriwether 1981 Playwright, screenwriter, television producer and writer
93 Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi American film director
94 Elizabeth Dawn 1939 British actress
95 Elizabeth Berrington 1970 English actress
96 Elizabeth Rockefeller Strong 1866 Eldest daughter of JDR
97 Elizabeth Jane Gardner 1837 Figure painter and wife of William-Adolphe Bouguereau
98 Elizabeth of York, Duchess of Suffolk 1444 English noblewoman
99 Elizabeth Keen
100 Elizabeth Estensen 1949 British actress
101 Elizabeth Inglis 1913 British actress
102 Elizabeth MacRae 1936 American actress
103 Elizabeth Abellana Zimmerman 1948
104 Elizabeth Wurtzel 1967 American author and journalist
105 Elizabeth Kenny 1880 Australian nurse
106 Elizabeth Corday
107 Elizabeth Prann 1985 American journalist
108 Elizabeth Cotten 1893 American blues and folk musician, singer and songwriter
109 Elizabeth Kucinich 1977 Animal rights activist from the USA
110 Elizabeth Thompson 1846 British artist
111 Elizabeth Keckley 1818 American writer
112 Elizabeth Jane Howard 1923 Writer
113 Elizabeth Cook 1972 American singer
114 Elizabeth Proctor 1652 Alleged American witch
115 Elizabeth Tan 1986 British actress
116 Elizabeth Spriggs 1929 British actress
117 Elizabeth Ramsey 1931 Filipina stand-up comedienne, singer and actress
118 Elizabeth Weir Stargate
119 Elizabeth Key Grinstead 1630 American slave
120 Elizabeth Monroe 1768 American politician
121 Elizabeth McLaughlin 1993 American actress
122 Elizabeth Avellán 1960 Venezuelan-American film producer
123 Elizabeth Bowen 1899 Irish writer
124 Elizabeth Garrett 1963 USC Provost and American legal scholar
125 Elizabeth Álvarez 1977 Actress
126 Elizabeth Green the Stork Woman Sideshow performer
127 Elizabeth Bogush 1977 American actress
128 Elizabeth Barton 1506 English Catholic nun and martyr
129 Elizabeth Day 1978
130 Elizabeth Whitcraft 1961 American actress
131 Elizabeth Beisel 1992 American swimmer, Olympic silver medalist, world champion
132 Elizabeth Bentley 1908 American spy for the USSR
133 Elizabeth Susan Koshy
134 Elizabeth Lavenza
135 Elizabeth Holtzman 1941 American congresswoman for New York
136 Elizabeth Baur 1947 Actress
137 G. E. M. Anscombe 1919 British analytic philosopher
138 Elizabeth Phillips 1986
139 Elizabeth Charlotte, Princess Palatine 1652 German princess; wife of Philippe I, Duke of Orléans
140 Elizabeth Norment 1952 American actress
141 Elizabeth Patterson 1874 Actress
142 Elizabeth Spiers 1976 American journalist
143 Elizabeth Clare Prophet 1939 American religious leader
144 Elizabeth Medora Leigh 1814 Byron Family
145 Elizabeth Rice 1985 American actress
146 Elizabeth Alexeievna 1779 Russian emperor
147 Elizabeth David 1913 British cookery writer
148 Elizabeth Dupeyrón 1953 Mexican television actor, actor and film actor
149 Elizabeth Kolbert 1961 Journalist and author
150 Elizabeth Van Lew 1818 American civil war spy
151 Elizabeth Moon 1945 American writer
152 Elizabeth Jhin 1949 Brazilian writer
153 Elizabeth Falkner 1966 American Television chef
154 Elizabeth McCord
155 Elizabeth Fritzl 1966
156 Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, Baroness Butler-Sloss 1933 English judge
157 Elizabeth Anne Allen 1970 American actress
158 Elizabeth Franz 1941 American actress
159 Elizabeth Wyckes 1489 Wife of Thomas Cromwell
160 Elizabeth Olivet Character in the TV series Law & Order
161 Elizabeth von Arnim 1866 Australian writer
162 Elizabeth Bolden 1890 American supercentenarian
163 Elizabeth Shepherd 1936 British actress
164 Elizabeth Koch 1976
165 Elizabeth De Razzo 1980 Actress
166 Elizabeth Sinclair 1800 British farmer and plantation owner in New Zealand and Hawaii,
167 Elizabeth Gurley Flynn 1890 American politician
168 Elizabeth Jennings Graham 1827 American activist
169 Elizabeth Hubbard 1933 American actress
170 Elizabeth Taylor 1912 British novelist
171 Elizabeth Dilling 1894 American activist
172 Elizabeth Jennings 1926 Poet
173 Elizabeth Swados 1951 American composer
174 Elizabeth Dowdeswell 1944 Canadian Lieutenant Governor
175 Elizabeth de Burgh 1289 Scottish royal consort
176 Elizabeth of Aragon 1271 Queen consort of Portugal
177 Elizabeth Esty 1959 American politician
178 Elizabeth Webster British actress
179 Elizabeth Kostova 1964 American writer
180 Elizabeth Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne 1750 Viscountess Melbourne
181 Elizabeth of Rhuddlan 1282 English princess, born in Wales
182 Elizabeth Alexander 1962 Poet
183 Elizabeth Wolfgramm 1972 American singer
184 Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte 1785 Wife of Jérôme Bonaparte
185 Elizabeth Ann Duncan 1904 American murderer
186 Elizabeth Goudge 1900 English fiction writer
187 Elizabeth Power British actress
188 Elizabeth Hoffman 1927 American actress
189 Elizabeth Ann Roberts 1941 Model, Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for the January 1958
190 Elizabeth Seymour, Lady Cromwell 1518 English noblewoman
191 Elizabeth Wakefield
192 Elizabeth Emanuel 1953 British fashion designer
193 Elizabeth Bear 1971 American novelist
194 Elizabeth Hawthorne 1947 New Zealand actress
195 Elizabeth Zimmermann 1910 Knitter
196 Elizabeth Chambers 1982 American television personality
197 Elizabeth T. Spira 1942 Austrian television presenter
198 Elizabeth of Lancaster, Duchess of Exeter 1364 English noblewoman
199 Elizabeth Allan 1910 Actress
200 Elizabeth Sellars 1923 Actress