Lisa — #983 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Lisa

The Social Security Administration has registered 966,965 babies named Lisa between 1886 and 2024, spanning 139 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Lisa currently holds the #983 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1965, when 60,269 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Lisa performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 496,983 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Lisa shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 94,799 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Lisa in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Lisa 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 966,965 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.