Liisa — girls' name

What the Data Says About Liisa

The Social Security Administration has registered 427 babies named Liisa between 1949 and 1995, spanning 47 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Liisa currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1995. The name reached its historical peak in 1962, when 28 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Liisa performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 173 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Liisa shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Massachusetts. In total, SSA state-level files list Liisa in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Liisa in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 427 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.