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Lisa: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 256 in 2025. Its best rank was #1 in 1969.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1 in 1969; #991 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Lisa in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#991 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1969, at #1.
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Lisa: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 256 girls in 2025. Peak: #1 in 1969 · most girls in one year: 60,271 (1965).
In 2025, 256 US girls were named Lisa, making it the 991st most common girls’ name of the year, down 6 places from #985 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 264 girls named Lisa in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1, reached in 1969. The most girls given the name in a single year was 60,271, in 1965. For comparison, it was #755 in 2015 and #220 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lisa in 122 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1886 with 6 babies. In all, 970,012 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 498,279 babies named Lisa.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,858 US girls were named Lisa; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 346. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,278 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Lisa ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #561 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Elizabeth (1,693,973 babies since 1880), Betty (1,004,857 babies since 1880), Isabella (417,454 babies since 1880) and Isabel (133,977 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Lisabeth, Lyza and Lysa are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Liz.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch, English, German, Italian, Romanian and Swedish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Lisabeth (1,265), Lyza (835), Lysa (761), Liesa (392), Leza (304), Litha (261), Laisa (233), Lisia (191), Lessa (148), Lizza (55), Leissa (37), Lizah (24), and more.
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.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 35 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 30 | #561 | #493 |
| Utah | 7 | #577 | #603 |
| Wisconsin | 8 | #588 | #719 |
| Indiana | 9 | #693 | #826 |
| Missouri | 8 | #695 | #654 |
| California | 43 | #726 | #576 |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #790 | — |
| Illinois | 10 | #894 | #953 |
| Florida | 16 | #981 | #702 |
| Colorado | 5 | #998 | — |
| Ohio | 8 | #1,091 | #772 |
| North Carolina | 8 | #1,109 | #1,183 |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,154 | #967 |
| Texas | 23 | #1,178 | #844 |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,184 | #856 |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,286 | #599 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 256 | #991 | — | — |
| 2024 | 264 | #985 | — | — |
| 2023 | 317 | #848 | — | — |
| 2022 | 290 | #932 | — | — |
| 2021 | 248 | #1,026 | — | — |
| 2020 | 243 | #1,037 | — | — |
| 2019 | 277 | #955 | — | — |
| 2018 | 308 | #878 | — | — |
| 2017 | 309 | #882 | — | — |
| 2016 | 346 | #829 | — | — |
| 2015 | 374 | #755 | — | — |
| 2014 | 378 | #740 | — | — |
| 2013 | 354 | #771 | — | — |
| 2012 | 398 | #707 | — | — |
| 2011 | 396 | #704 | — | — |
| 2010 | 396 | #713 | — | — |
| 2009 | 420 | #693 | — | — |
| 2008 | 510 | #603 | — | — |
| 2007 | 525 | #573 | — | — |
| 2006 | 609 | #500 | — | — |
| 2005 | 619 | #494 | — | — |
| 2004 | 710 | #427 | — | — |
| 2003 | 811 | #372 | — | — |
| 2002 | 830 | #360 | — | — |
| 2001 | 908 | #337 | — | — |
| 2000 | 1,088 | #295 | 7 | #8,759 |
| 1999 | 1,113 | #282 | — | — |
| 1998 | 1,364 | #230 | — | — |
| 1997 | 1,546 | #194 | — | — |
| 1996 | 1,864 | #168 | 7 | #7,649 |
| 1995 | 2,236 | #144 | — | — |
| 1994 | 2,564 | #123 | 13 | #4,698 |
| 1993 | 3,223 | #100 | 7 | #7,297 |
| 1992 | 3,781 | #88 | 11 | #5,110 |
| 1991 | 4,395 | #83 | 14 | #4,146 |
| 1990 | 5,347 | #64 | 14 | #4,106 |
| 1989 | 6,573 | #55 | 30 | #2,273 |
| 1988 | 7,267 | #43 | 38 | #1,807 |
| 1987 | 7,549 | #40 | 26 | #2,248 |
| 1986 | 7,907 | #40 | 31 | #1,946 |
| 1985 | 9,012 | #36 | 33 | #1,821 |
| 1984 | 10,238 | #29 | 46 | #1,414 |
| 1983 | 11,469 | #27 | 52 | #1,287 |
| 1982 | 12,637 | #23 | 44 | #1,456 |
| 1981 | 14,294 | #18 | 65 | #1,140 |
| 1980 | 15,664 | #16 | 61 | #1,170 |
| 1979 | 17,286 | #13 | 68 | #1,083 |
| 1978 | 17,033 | #11 | 50 | #1,279 |
| 1977 | 17,014 | #12 | 53 | #1,217 |
| 1976 | 17,346 | #9 | 61 | #1,079 |
| 1975 | 18,139 | #8 | 69 | #989 |
| 1974 | 19,778 | #8 | 74 | #950 |
| 1973 | 22,677 | #5 | 66 | #998 |
| 1972 | 27,543 | #3 | 96 | #820 |
| 1971 | 32,907 | #3 | 130 | #725 |
| 1970 | 38,967 | #2 | 137 | #711 |
| 1969 | 45,028 | #1 | 149 | #647 |
| 1968 | 49,534 | #1 | 172 | #577 |
| 1967 | 52,437 | #1 | 120 | #681 |
| 1966 | 56,918 | #1 | 151 | #607 |
| 1965 | 60,271 | #1 | 177 | #576 |
| 1964 | 54,270 | #1 | 131 | #675 |
| 1963 | 56,047 | #1 | 120 | #716 |
| 1962 | 46,069 | #1 | 104 | #749 |
| 1961 | 42,720 | #2 | 82 | #850 |
| 1960 | 33,693 | #6 | 86 | #823 |
| 1959 | 25,699 | #10 | 59 | #1,009 |
| 1958 | 20,202 | #19 | 36 | #1,296 |
| 1957 | 15,142 | #26 | 29 | #1,472 |
| 1956 | 11,012 | #31 | 19 | #1,866 |
| 1955 | 8,539 | #48 | 20 | #1,763 |
| 1954 | 5,913 | #73 | 9 | #2,868 |
| 1953 | 3,602 | #111 | 9 | #2,827 |
| 1952 | 2,842 | #126 | 7 | #3,266 |
| 1951 | 1,698 | #177 | — | — |
| 1950 | 1,175 | #220 | — | — |
| 1949 | 596 | #318 | — | — |
| 1948 | 468 | #364 | — | — |
| 1947 | 423 | #388 | — | — |
| 1946 | 327 | #426 | — | — |
| 1945 | 250 | #451 | — | — |
| 1944 | 193 | #519 | — | — |
| 1943 | 162 | #592 | — | — |
| 1942 | 124 | #672 | — | — |
| 1941 | 92 | #743 | — | — |
| 1940 | 89 | #737 | — | — |
| 1939 | 77 | #780 | — | — |
| 1938 | 79 | #798 | — | — |
| 1937 | 53 | #958 | — | — |
| 1936 | 47 | #1,016 | — | — |
| 1935 | 31 | #1,323 | — | — |
| 1934 | 32 | #1,277 | — | — |
| 1933 | 21 | #1,693 | — | — |
| 1932 | 40 | #1,141 | — | — |
| 1931 | 28 | #1,412 | — | — |
| 1930 | 32 | #1,360 | — | — |
| 1929 | 22 | #1,740 | — | — |
| 1928 | 12 | #2,699 | — | — |
| 1927 | 14 | #2,490 | — | — |
| 1926 | 31 | #1,467 | — | — |
| 1925 | 13 | #2,707 | — | — |
| 1924 | 23 | #1,843 | — | — |
| 1923 | 15 | #2,415 | — | — |
| 1922 | 15 | #2,437 | — | — |
| 1921 | 17 | #2,248 | — | — |
| 1920 | 17 | #2,220 | — | — |
| 1919 | 14 | #2,448 | — | — |
| 1918 | 14 | #2,446 | — | — |
| 1917 | 13 | #2,493 | — | — |
| 1916 | 11 | #2,748 | — | — |
| 1915 | 14 | #2,197 | — | — |
| 1914 | 12 | #2,074 | — | — |
| 1913 | 16 | #1,500 | — | — |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,522 | — | — |
| 1911 | 9 | #1,729 | — | — |
| 1910 | 9 | #1,705 | — | — |
| 1907 | 7 | #1,734 | — | — |
| 1905 | 5 | #2,100 | — | — |
| 1904 | 9 | #1,319 | — | — |
| 1899 | 7 | #1,336 | — | — |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,728 | — | — |
| 1886 | 6 | #1,048 | — | — |
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).