Liesl
Liesl was given to 33 girls in 2025, #4,309 among girls’ names; 1,949 Americans have been recorded with it since 1965 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,880 Americans named Liesl and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 14 and 52.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Liesl by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Liesl mean?
Wiktionary, German section
Liesl is “a diminutive of the female given name Elisabeth”
Meaning: Wiktionary, German section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Liesl?
#4,309 among girls’ names, 2025
Liesl fell from #3,239 in 2015 to #4,309 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 28.6 to 20.5 per million.
100 babies in 1966, the peak
Liesl peaked in 1966, when 100 girls were given it, #1,046 among girls’ names. The 33 births of 2025 are 33% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33 | #4,309 | 20.5 |
| 2024 | 22 | #5,720 | 13.6 |
| 2023 | 28 | #4,817 | 17.5 |
| 2022 | 31 | #4,536 | 18.9 |
| 2021 | 32 | #4,370 | 19.5 |
| 2020 | 27 | #4,832 | 16.7 |
| 2019 | 29 | #4,724 | 17.3 |
| 2018 | 37 | #3,973 | 21.8 |
| 2017 | 35 | #4,192 | 20.3 |
| 2016 | 36 | #4,129 | 20.3 |
Every recorded year (61)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 51 | #3,239 | 28.6 |
| 2014 | 55 | #3,060 | 30.8 |
| 2013 | 39 | #3,885 | 22.2 |
| 2012 | 46 | #3,502 | 26.1 |
| 2011 | 46 | #3,481 | 26.2 |
| 2010 | 43 | #3,673 | 24.2 |
| 2009 | 30 | #4,888 | 16.3 |
| 2008 | 41 | #3,900 | 21.7 |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,216 | 11.4 |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,355 | 8.9 |
| 2005 | 27 | #4,897 | 14.6 |
| 2004 | 17 | #6,957 | 9.3 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,771 | 9.3 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,285 | 10.0 |
| 2001 | 26 | #4,630 | 14.4 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,393 | 7.7 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,693 | 8.5 |
| 1998 | 28 | #4,087 | 15.8 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,677 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,192 | 10.8 |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,833 | 9.1 |
| 1994 | 21 | #4,764 | 11.8 |
| 1993 | 19 | #5,102 | 10.5 |
| 1992 | 25 | #4,160 | 13.6 |
| 1991 | 21 | #4,729 | 11.2 |
| 1990 | 21 | #4,605 | 11.1 |
| 1989 | 32 | #3,286 | 17.4 |
| 1988 | 24 | #3,843 | 13.5 |
| 1987 | 29 | #3,221 | 16.7 |
| 1986 | 29 | #3,169 | 16.9 |
| 1985 | 30 | #3,049 | 17.4 |
| 1984 | 40 | #2,402 | 23.8 |
| 1983 | 29 | #2,948 | 17.4 |
| 1982 | 39 | #2,471 | 23.0 |
| 1981 | 29 | #3,035 | 17.4 |
| 1980 | 27 | #3,174 | 16.3 |
| 1979 | 24 | #3,397 | 15.0 |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,820 | 9.1 |
| 1977 | 27 | #2,961 | 17.6 |
| 1976 | 26 | #2,906 | 17.7 |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,470 | 9.6 |
| 1974 | 19 | #3,501 | 12.9 |
| 1973 | 25 | #2,793 | 17.1 |
| 1972 | 21 | #3,125 | 13.8 |
| 1971 | 29 | #2,574 | 17.4 |
| 1970 | 47 | #1,870 | 26.9 |
| 1969 | 72 | #1,345 | 42.7 |
| 1968 | 85 | #1,172 | 51.8 |
| 1967 | 96 | #1,062 | 58.1 |
| 1966 | 100 | #1,046 | 59.1 |
| 1965 | 24 | #2,504 | 13.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Liesl a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Liesl has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 61 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Liesl: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Liesl, and how old are they?
1,880 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,949 Americans ever recorded as Liesl. The median Liesl alive today is 33 years old; half are between 14 and 52.
The 2020 Census counted 1,857 people named Liesl (1,857 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,730 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 596 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 411 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 417 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 452 |
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, Liesl is the most given (58% of them). In 2025 it was given to 33 of their 61 babies (54%), again the 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 Liesl
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1960-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Joelle | 16,640 |
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 Liesl and names like it
- Compare Liesl and LieselBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sLiesl peaked in 1966.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Liesl since 1910.
- German namesWiktionary’s origin for Liesl: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1966The year the most babies were named Liesl.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Liesl alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with LMost given first.