Elizabeth

Etymology
From, from the , a transliteration of the Old Testament. See and. Doublet of Elisheba.

Proper noun

 * , popular since the 16th century.
 * 1) * 1988 Barbara Vine ( =Ruth Rendell ), The House of Stairs, p.21:
 * "Because if you say it over and over to yourself, darling, it really is a quite strange-sounding name, isn't it? It's just as strange as any other from the Old Testament, Mehetabel or Hepsibah or Shulamith, and any of them might have got to be as fashionable as Elizabeth if a queen had been called by them.
 * "Because if you say it over and over to yourself, darling, it really is a quite strange-sounding name, isn't it? It's just as strange as any other from the Old Testament, Mehetabel or Hepsibah or Shulamith, and any of them might have got to be as fashionable as Elizabeth if a queen had been called by them.

Related terms




Translations

 * Albanian: Izabetë
 * Arabic: إِلِيزَابِيث, إِلِيصَابَات
 * Armenian: Եղիսաբեթ
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: Лізаве́та
 * Bengali: ইলিজাবেথ
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian: Елисавета
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 伊利沙伯
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: Elisabeth
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: Elizabeto
 * Estonian: Liis
 * Farefare: Elizabɛtɩ, A'elizabɛtɩ
 * Faroese: Elisabet, Lísbita
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Gothic: 𐌰𐌹𐌻𐌴𐌹𐍃𐌰𐌱𐌰𐌹𐌸
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: Ἐλισάβετ
 * Hawaiian: ʻElikapeka
 * Hebrew: אלישבע
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian: Elisabet
 * Irish: Eilís, Eibhlís, Éilis, Isibéal
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: エリザベス
 * Korean: ^엘리자베스
 * Latin: Isabella, Elisabeth
 * Latvian: Elizabete
 * Lithuanian: Elžbieta
 * Macedonian: Елизабе́та, Елисаве́та
 * Maltese: Eliżabetta
 * Manx: Ealisaid
 * Maori: Irihāpeti
 * Middle English: Elizabeth
 * Norwegian:
 * Ojibwe: Enizaabet
 * Old English: Elisabeþ
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: Elisabete,
 * Romanian: Elisabeta
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: Ealasaid
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: Јелисавета
 * Roman: Jelisaveta
 * Slovak: Alžbeta
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tamil: எலிசபெத்
 * Telugu: ఎలిజబెత్
 * Ukrainian:, Елі́забет, Єлизаве́та, , Елізабе́т

Statistics

 * According to the 2010 United States Census, Elizabeth is the 38439th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 576 individuals. Elizabeth is most common among White (60.94%) and Hispanic/Latino (25.17%) individuals.

Etymology
From, from the , a transliteration of the Old Testament.

Proper noun

 * 1) The mother of John the Baptist
 * 2) Elisheba, the wife of Aaron.
 * 3) * 1380s : Exodus 6:23:
 * "enm"
 * "enm"

- Sotheli Aaron took a wijf, Elizabeth,the douytir of Amynadab, the sistr of Naason.