Liesel
Liesel was given to 28 girls in 2025, #4,829 among girls’ names; 1,241 Americans have been recorded with it since 1954 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,210 Americans named Liesel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 10 and 37.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Liesel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Liesel mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Liesel is “a diminutive of the female given name Elisabeth, from German.”
Borrowed from German Liesel.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Liesel?
#4,829 among girls’ names, 2025
Liesel fell from #2,796 in 2015 to #4,829 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 35.3 to 17.4 per million.
63 babies in 2015, the peak
Liesel peaked in 2015, when 63 girls were given it, #2,796 among girls’ names. The 28 births of 2025 are 44% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 28 | #4,829 | 17.4 |
| 2024 | 22 | #5,719 | 13.6 |
| 2023 | 25 | #5,196 | 15.6 |
| 2022 | 34 | #4,258 | 20.7 |
| 2021 | 35 | #4,140 | 21.3 |
| 2020 | 39 | #3,757 | 24.1 |
| 2019 | 33 | #4,304 | 19.7 |
| 2018 | 43 | #3,594 | 25.3 |
| 2017 | 44 | #3,518 | 25.5 |
| 2016 | 52 | #3,168 | 29.3 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 63 | #2,796 | 35.3 |
| 2014 | 60 | #2,873 | 33.6 |
| 2013 | 30 | #4,707 | 17.1 |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,758 | 10.8 |
| 2011 | 32 | #4,519 | 18.2 |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,891 | 12.9 |
| 2009 | 31 | #4,758 | 16.9 |
| 2008 | 33 | #4,598 | 17.5 |
| 2007 | 26 | #5,462 | 13.5 |
| 2006 | 26 | #5,317 | 13.7 |
| 2005 | 28 | #4,777 | 15.2 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,655 | 8.2 |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,197 | 10.4 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,945 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,102 | 6.1 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,909 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,499 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,983 | 5.7 |
| 1997 | 21 | #4,937 | 12.1 |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,239 | 8.6 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,219 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,583 | 9.5 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,871 | 7.2 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,165 | 3.8 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,410 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 16 | #5,705 | 8.4 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,785 | 5.4 |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,766 | 7.9 |
| 1987 | 26 | #3,478 | 15.0 |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,996 | 7.0 |
| 1985 | 18 | #4,366 | 10.5 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,397 | 7.7 |
| 1983 | 19 | #4,042 | 11.4 |
| 1982 | 21 | #3,852 | 12.4 |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,636 | 9.6 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,414 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,473 | 6.2 |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,136 | 4.6 |
| 1977 | 10 | #6,135 | 6.5 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,348 | 6.1 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,895 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 18 | #3,638 | 12.3 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,157 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,009 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,900 | 3.6 |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,930 | 6.3 |
| 1969 | 15 | #3,708 | 8.9 |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,363 | 6.7 |
| 1967 | 20 | #2,829 | 12.1 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,697 | 5.3 |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,366 | 5.7 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,261 | 3.1 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,225 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Liesel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Liesel has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 63 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Liesel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Liesel, and how old are they?
1,210 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,241 Americans ever recorded as Liesel. The median Liesel alive today is 17 years old; half are between 10 and 37.
The 2020 Census counted 1,206 people named Liesel (1,203 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,048 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 9 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 152 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 223 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 325 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 505 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,339 babies since 1880, Liesel is the second most given (37% of them). In 2025 it was given to 28 of their 61 babies (46%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Liesel
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Liesel and names like it
- Compare Liesel and LieslBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sLiesel peaked in 2015.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Liesel since 1910.
- German namesWiktionary’s origin for Liesel: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Liesel.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Liesel alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.