Meaning not yet researched.
Liesl: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 33 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,046 in 1966.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,046 in 1966; #4,310 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Liesl in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,310 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1966, at #1,046.
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Liesl: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 33 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,046 in 1966 · most girls in one year: 100 (1966).
In 2025, 33 US girls were named Liesl, making it the 4,310th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,413 places from #5,723 in 2024. That is 11 more than the 22 girls named Liesl in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,046, reached in 1966. That year also had the most girls given the name: 100. For comparison, it was #3,239 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Liesl in 61 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1965 with 24 babies. In all, 1,949 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 417 babies named Liesl.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 310 US girls were named Liesl; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 37. In 2025 that was about 1 in 48,705 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Elizabeth (1,693,973 babies since 1880), Betty (1,004,857 babies since 1880), Lisa (970,012 babies since 1880) and Tina (293,050 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Lisle, Lesle and Leisl are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in German. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Lisle (564), Lesle (187), Leisl (79), Lisl (60), Liezl (33).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Liesl in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33 | #4,310 | — | — |
| 2024 | 22 | #5,723 | — | — |
| 2023 | 28 | #4,820 | — | — |
| 2022 | 31 | #4,539 | — | — |
| 2021 | 32 | #4,374 | — | — |
| 2020 | 27 | #4,834 | — | — |
| 2019 | 29 | #4,725 | — | — |
| 2018 | 37 | #3,974 | — | — |
| 2017 | 35 | #4,193 | — | — |
| 2016 | 36 | #4,130 | — | — |
| 2015 | 51 | #3,239 | — | — |
| 2014 | 55 | #3,062 | — | — |
| 2013 | 39 | #3,887 | — | — |
| 2012 | 46 | #3,503 | — | — |
| 2011 | 46 | #3,482 | — | — |
| 2010 | 43 | #3,674 | — | — |
| 2009 | 30 | #4,889 | — | — |
| 2008 | 41 | #3,901 | — | — |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,220 | — | — |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,357 | — | — |
| 2005 | 27 | #4,901 | — | — |
| 2004 | 17 | #6,962 | — | — |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,776 | — | — |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,290 | — | — |
| 2001 | 26 | #4,635 | — | — |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,400 | — | — |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,699 | — | — |
| 1998 | 28 | #4,090 | — | — |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,682 | — | — |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,197 | — | — |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,838 | — | — |
| 1994 | 21 | #4,769 | — | — |
| 1993 | 19 | #5,108 | — | — |
| 1992 | 25 | #4,166 | — | — |
| 1991 | 21 | #4,735 | — | — |
| 1990 | 21 | #4,610 | — | — |
| 1989 | 32 | #3,292 | — | — |
| 1988 | 24 | #3,848 | — | — |
| 1987 | 29 | #3,224 | — | — |
| 1986 | 29 | #3,171 | — | — |
| 1985 | 30 | #3,050 | — | — |
| 1984 | 40 | #2,403 | — | — |
| 1983 | 29 | #2,949 | — | — |
| 1982 | 39 | #2,471 | — | — |
| 1981 | 29 | #3,035 | — | — |
| 1980 | 27 | #3,174 | — | — |
| 1979 | 24 | #3,397 | — | — |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,820 | — | — |
| 1977 | 27 | #2,962 | — | — |
| 1976 | 26 | #2,907 | — | — |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,472 | — | — |
| 1974 | 19 | #3,501 | — | — |
| 1973 | 25 | #2,793 | — | — |
| 1972 | 21 | #3,125 | — | — |
| 1971 | 29 | #2,574 | — | — |
| 1970 | 47 | #1,870 | — | — |
| 1969 | 72 | #1,345 | — | — |
| 1968 | 85 | #1,172 | — | — |
| 1967 | 96 | #1,062 | — | — |
| 1966 | 100 | #1,046 | — | — |
| 1965 | 24 | #2,505 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).