Elisabeth Forename
405th
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 1,689,732 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
Germany
Highest density in:
Austria
Elisabeth Forename Definition:
Hebrew (feminine) - God is her oath, or a worshipper of God.
Read More About This ForenameElisabeth Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 100% | 633,529 | 1:153 | 28 |
| DR Congo | 99% | 190,933 | 1:387 | 63 |
| Austria | 100% | 124,311 | 1:68 | 5 |
| France | 100% | 111,563 | 1:596 | 140 |
| Cameroon | 100% | 80,209 | 1:269 | 24 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 61,288 | 1:134 | 12 |
| Benin | 100% | 51,644 | 1:205 | 3 |
| Indonesia | 97% | 46,938 | 1:5,496 | 683 |
| Belgium | 100% | 44,681 | 1:257 | 38 |
| United States | 100% | 40,551 | 1:8,940 | 1,013 |
| Brazil | 100% | 32,244 | 1:6,644 | 828 |
| Norway | 100% | 20,507 | 1:250 | 47 |
| Angola | 100% | 18,625 | 1:1,448 | 294 |
| Spain | 100% | 15,099 | 1:3,082 | 361 |
| Burkina Faso | 100% | 14,241 | 1:1,291 | 210 |
| Madagascar | 100% | 13,906 | 1:1,699 | 395 |
| Sweden | 100% | 12,153 | 1:811 | 142 |
| Guinea | 100% | 11,935 | 1:994 | 133 |
| England | 100% | 10,839 | 1:5,130 | 547 |
| Senegal | 100% | 8,300 | 1:1,757 | 254 |
| Italy | 100% | 8,116 | 1:7,524 | 544 |
| Mozambique | - | 7,680 | 1:3,547 | 728 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 7,516 | 1:2,249 | 446 |
| Colombia | 100% | 7,291 | 1:6,553 | 689 |
| Ethiopia | 100% | 7,282 | 1:13,397 | 1,887 |
| Burundi | 100% | 7,241 | 1:1,368 | 438 |
| Denmark | - | 6,813 | 1:829 | 185 |
| Ivory Coast | 100% | 6,572 | 1:3,511 | 387 |
| Nigeria | 100% | 6,053 | 1:29,335 | 2,607 |
| Argentina | 100% | 5,792 | 1:7,385 | 575 |
| Canada | 100% | 5,141 | 1:6,445 | 915 |
| Rwanda | 100% | 4,593 | 1:2,476 | 533 |
| Chile | 100% | 3,960 | 1:4,446 | 476 |
| South Africa | 100% | 3,760 | 1:14,503 | 2,222 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 3,648 | 1:8,279 | 930 |
| Mexico | 100% | 3,292 | 1:37,711 | 1,653 |
| Papua New Guinea | 100% | 3,276 | 1:2,488 | 289 |
| Mali | 100% | 3,093 | 1:5,489 | 529 |
| Peru | 100% | 2,644 | 1:12,024 | 1,244 |
| Haiti | 100% | 2,421 | 1:4,431 | 645 |
| Chad | 100% | 2,410 | 1:5,642 | 870 |
| Uganda | 100% | 2,273 | 1:18,019 | 1,507 |
| Australia | - | 2,261 | 1:6,041 | 732 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 1,682 | 1:335 | 75 |
| Portugal | - | 1,651 | 1:6,306 | 462 |
| Poland | 100% | 1,649 | 1:23,061 | 781 |
| Thailand | 100% | 1,635 | 1:42,854 | 4,827 |
| Gabon | 100% | 1,604 | 1:1,174 | 272 |
| Namibia | - | 1,582 | 1:1,520 | 309 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 1,476 | 1:7,067 | 931 |
| Congo | 100% | 1,331 | 1:3,763 | 598 |
| Ghana | - | 1,292 | 1:20,887 | 1,554 |
| Bolivia | 100% | 1,257 | 1:8,434 | 956 |
| Togo | - | 1,154 | 1:6,273 | 988 |
| Philippines | 98% | 1,091 | 1:97,167 | 5,511 |
| India | 100% | 1,082 | 1:1,122,808 | 70,763 |
| Morocco | 100% | 1,065 | 1:32,252 | 1,644 |
| Cuba | - | 1,029 | 1:11,182 | 809 |
| Finland | 100% | 797 | 1:6,880 | 677 |
| Scotland | 100% | 733 | 1:7,299 | 592 |
| French Polynesia | - | 730 | 1:381 | 61 |
| Wales | 100% | 627 | 1:4,935 | 588 |
| Greece | 100% | 568 | 1:19,251 | 969 |
| New Caledonia | 100% | 560 | 1:482 | 119 |
| Czechia | 100% | 498 | 1:21,398 | 592 |
| New Zealand | - | 488 | 1:9,295 | 1,022 |
| Egypt | - | 412 | 1:223,061 | 7,852 |
| Liechtenstein | - | 409 | 1:93 | 8 |
| Nicaragua | 100% | 398 | 1:15,121 | 1,303 |
| Panama | 100% | 328 | 1:11,910 | 1,476 |
| Uruguay | 100% | 314 | 1:10,916 | 785 |
| Cape Verde | - | 312 | 1:1,696 | 287 |
| Ecuador | - | 302 | 1:58,698 | 1,904 |
| Romania | 100% | 275 | 1:72,916 | 3,576 |
| Curaçao | 100% | 259 | 1:602 | 191 |
| Malaysia | 97% | 258 | 1:118,023 | 7,925 |
| Paraguay | 98% | 246 | 1:29,418 | 1,520 |
| Hungary | 100% | 238 | 1:41,142 | 512 |
| Suriname | 100% | 230 | 1:2,404 | 565 |
| Ireland | 100% | 222 | 1:20,917 | 1,018 |
| Estonia | 100% | 217 | 1:6,062 | 849 |
| Honduras | 100% | 198 | 1:44,533 | 2,136 |
| Russia | 100% | 152 | 1:948,906 | 8,331 |
| Faroe Islands | 100% | 147 | 1:334 | 55 |
| Guatemala | 100% | 147 | 1:109,581 | 2,304 |
| Tanzania | 100% | 139 | 1:379,772 | 12,057 |
| Kenya | 100% | 131 | 1:353,489 | 11,446 |
| Greenland | - | 130 | 1:434 | 91 |
| Aruba | - | 109 | 1:952 | 190 |
| El Salvador | - | 101 | 1:62,790 | 1,762 |
| Cyprus | 100% | 98 | 1:8,889 | 823 |
| Israel | 97% | 94 | 1:89,393 | 4,095 |
| Monaco | 100% | 94 | 1:409 | 58 |
| Zambia | - | 85 | 1:186,527 | 6,727 |
| China | - | 79 | 1:17,291,845 | 60,171 |
| Zimbabwe | 96% | 79 | 1:195,238 | 11,823 |
| Solomon Islands | 100% | 76 | 1:7,644 | 819 |
| Andorra | - | 62 | 1:1,337 | 188 |
| Turkey | 100% | 61 | 1:1,275,438 | 11,290 |
| Saint Barthelemy | - | 60 | 1:159 | 51 |
| Croatia | 100% | 55 | 1:76,674 | 2,164 |
| Malta | - | 45 | 1:9,541 | 977 |
| Niger | 96% | 45 | 1:426,311 | 9,144 |
| Singapore | 100% | 43 | 1:146,211 | 7,964 |
| Guernsey | - | 42 | 1:1,508 | 269 |
| Saint Lucia | 100% | 42 | 1:4,234 | 728 |
| Hong Kong | - | 40 | 1:193,818 | 3,243 |
| Northern Ireland | 100% | 37 | 1:49,815 | 1,217 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 36 | 1:37,817 | 3,714 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 36 | 1:198,666 | 12,927 |
| Jersey | - | 31 | 1:3,225 | 462 |
| Belize | 100% | 29 | 1:12,218 | 1,691 |
| Kuwait | - | 28 | 1:135,188 | 8,745 |
| Qatar | 100% | 28 | 1:84,629 | 9,711 |
| Botswana | 100% | 26 | 1:84,017 | 7,219 |
| East Timor | - | 25 | 1:48,735 | 137 |
| Lesotho | 100% | 21 | 1:97,143 | 8,397 |
| Lebanon | - | 20 | 1:281,379 | 4,944 |
| Seychelles | 100% | 19 | 1:4,877 | 888 |
| Kazakhstan | 100% | 18 | 1:985,936 | 10,651 |
| Mongolia | - | 18 | 1:163,045 | 8,219 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 17 | 1:280,468 | 5,518 |
| Liberia | 100% | 17 | 1:259,533 | 8,550 |
| Slovakia | 100% | 17 | 1:312,357 | 1,700 |
| Guyana | 100% | 16 | 1:47,704 | 4,533 |
| Sudan | - | 16 | 1:2,362,936 | 3,917 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 15 | 1:6,626 | 1,171 |
| Barbados | - | 14 | 1:20,699 | 1,571 |
| Kosovo | - | 14 | 1:132,960 | 6,379 |
| South Korea | - | 14 | 1:396,030 | 11,136 |
| Japan | - | 12 | 1:10,665,505 | 35,725 |
| Jamaica | - | 11 | 1:262,112 | 7,926 |
| San Marino | 100% | 11 | 1:2,993 | 361 |
| Slovenia | 100% | 11 | 1:223,523 | 3,995 |
| Tunisia | - | 10 | 1:67,690 | 3,091 |
| Cayman Islands | - | 9 | 1:6,811 | 1,077 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 9 | 1:3,423,618 | 14,711 |
| South Sudan | 100% | 9 | 1:1,283,447 | 1,308 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 9 | 1:2,641,076 | 57,947 |
| Albania | 100% | 8 | 1:380,821 | 15,237 |
| Belarus | 100% | 8 | 1:1,185,298 | 6,117 |
| Guam | - | 7 | 1:22,949 | 2,164 |
| Mauritius | - | 7 | 1:185,398 | 4,003 |
| Vietnam | - | 7 | 1:13,231,873 | 4,411 |
| American Samoa | - | 6 | 1:9,308 | 1,982 |
| Ukraine | - | 6 | 1:7,583,318 | 11,559 |
| Jordan | - | 5 | 1:1,765,355 | 7,450 |
| Bahrain | - | 4 | 1:337,168 | 4,986 |
| Bangladesh | - | 4 | 1:39,865,342 | 24,379 |
| Bermuda | - | 4 | 1:16,206 | 1,525 |
| Cambodia | - | 4 | 1:4,068,332 | 35,322 |
| Oman | - | 4 | 1:1,027,167 | 6,577 |
| Sierra Leone | - | 4 | 1:1,772,166 | 913 |
| Tajikistan | - | 4 | 1:2,093,730 | 5,016 |
| Uzbekistan | 100% | 4 | 1:7,696,610 | 11,277 |
| Vanuatu | - | 4 | 1:65,448 | 976 |
| Algeria | - | 3 | 1:12,725,573 | 18,455 |
| Armenia | 100% | 3 | 1:972,918 | 8,284 |
| Lithuania | - | 3 | 1:983,961 | 3,563 |
| Moldova | - | 3 | 1:1,187,046 | 5,200 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 100% | 2 | 1:1,762,229 | 6,852 |
| Dominica | - | 2 | 1:37,736 | 863 |
| Iceland | - | 2 | 1:183,008 | 5,215 |
| Iran | - | 2 | 1:39,248,434 | 50,459 |
| North Macedonia | - | 2 | 1:1,045,378 | 12,250 |
| Maldives | - | 2 | 1:216,952 | 3,781 |
| Nepal | - | 2 | 1:14,243,676 | 86,069 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 2 | 1:1,775,150 | 6,781 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 2 | 1:54,874 | 3,819 |
| Anguilla | - | 1 | 1:13,255 | 1,687 |
| Bahamas | - | 1 | 1:399,370 | 4,606 |
| British Virgin Islands | - | 1 | 1:31,250 | 1,787 |
| Bulgaria | - | 1 | 1:6,990,390 | 27,036 |
| Central African Republic | - | 1 | 1:4,515,390 | 1,073 |
| Cook Islands | - | 1 | 1:18,153 | 1,349 |
| Equatorial Guinea | - | 1 | 1:1,137,689 | 1,044 |
| Eritrea | - | 1 | 1:4,752,977 | 997 |
| Fiji | - | 1 | 1:892,378 | 3,968 |
| Gambia | - | 1 | 1:1,926,596 | 1,391 |
| Georgia | - | 1 | 1:3,738,466 | 29,095 |
| Grenada | - | 1 | 1:108,125 | 4,208 |
| Iraq | - | 1 | 1:35,017,859 | 22,933 |
| Kyrgyzstan | - | 1 | 1:5,973,277 | 46,622 |
| Laos | - | 1 | 1:6,586,856 | 1,888 |
| Latvia | - | 1 | 1:2,015,645 | 6,531 |
| Malawi | 100% | 1 | 1:17,112,310 | 24,110 |
| Mauritania | - | 1 | 1:4,095,239 | 27,701 |
| Montenegro | 100% | 1 | 1:634,576 | 4,914 |
| Pakistan | 100% | 1 | 1:194,357,680 | 303,535 |
| Palau | - | 1 | 1:21,711 | 239 |
| Saint Pierre and Miquelon | 100% | 1 | 1:6,315 | 385 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 100% | 1 | 1:111,580 | 7,062 |
| Samoa | - | 1 | 1:195,190 | 1,348 |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | 100% | 1 | 1:191,997 | 5,295 |
| Serbia | 100% | 1 | 1:7,145,721 | 10,629 |
| Tonga | - | 1 | 1:107,436 | 779 |
| Transnistria | 100% | 1 | 1:475,638 | 2,115 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | - | 1 | 1:34,707 | 1,398 |
| Yemen | - | 1 | 1:26,296,751 | 14,474 |
The alternate forms: Élisabeth (184), Elísabeth (33), Elisabèth (2) & Elisabéth (1) are calculated separately.
Elisabeth (20,527) may also be a surname.
Elisabeth Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
Hebrew (feminine) - God is her oath, or a worshipper of God.
— What is Your Name? (1863) by Sophy Moody
Or ELIZABETH, E-liz'-a-beth, God hath sworn, the fulness of God. The wife of Zacharias, and mother of John the Baptist Luke i. 5.
— The Proper Names of The Bible (1855) by John Farrar
Meaning: Greek form of Elisheba.
— A Dictionary of the Proper Names of the Old and New Testament (1909) by James Beaumont Jackson
A Hebrew name, meaning: God’s oath: God of the oath: consecrated to God.
— Dictionary of Given Names with Origins and Meanings (1934) by Flora Haines Loughead
User-submitted Reference
It means 'God is my oath/vow'.
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