Lise
Lise was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 2,791 Americans have been recorded with it between 1922 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,360 Americans named Lise and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (85% of everyone recorded); the median is 64 years old and half are between 57 and 69.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lise by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Lise mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Lise is “a female given name from French.”
Also “a diminutive of the female given name Lisa.”
From the French, and possible also from Scandinavian, Lise. Variant of more common English Lisa.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Lise?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,687, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
157 babies in 1959, the peak
Lise peaked in 1959, when 157 girls were given it, #819 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #16,687 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,228 | 4.2 |
| 2015 | 5 | #18,040 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 5 | #18,176 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 5 | #18,440 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,143 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,409 | 3.3 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,720 | 3.1 |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,276 | 2.7 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,593 | 3.3 |
Every recorded year (68)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 6 | #13,404 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,108 | 2.9 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,509 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,186 | 5.0 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,965 | 3.7 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,243 | 5.3 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,368 | 7.1 |
| 1988 | 11 | #6,908 | 6.2 |
| 1987 | 15 | #5,202 | 8.6 |
| 1986 | 17 | #4,647 | 9.9 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,539 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 11 | #6,119 | 6.5 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,318 | 7.8 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,222 | 5.3 |
| 1981 | 22 | #3,687 | 13.2 |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,644 | 9.6 |
| 1979 | 25 | #3,290 | 15.6 |
| 1978 | 21 | #3,580 | 13.7 |
| 1977 | 29 | #2,814 | 18.9 |
| 1976 | 30 | #2,634 | 20.5 |
| 1975 | 29 | #2,648 | 19.9 |
| 1974 | 30 | #2,533 | 20.4 |
| 1973 | 31 | #2,436 | 21.3 |
| 1972 | 34 | #2,254 | 22.4 |
| 1971 | 54 | #1,702 | 32.5 |
| 1970 | 51 | #1,769 | 29.2 |
| 1969 | 68 | #1,413 | 40.3 |
| 1968 | 84 | #1,184 | 51.2 |
| 1967 | 70 | #1,311 | 42.4 |
| 1966 | 94 | #1,085 | 55.5 |
| 1965 | 86 | #1,153 | 48.7 |
| 1964 | 95 | #1,130 | 50.1 |
| 1963 | 131 | #921 | 68.0 |
| 1962 | 123 | #958 | 62.5 |
| 1961 | 142 | #909 | 70.3 |
| 1960 | 113 | #1,010 | 55.9 |
| 1959 | 157 | #819 | 77.6 |
| 1958 | 151 | #825 | 75.1 |
| 1957 | 124 | #921 | 60.6 |
| 1956 | 144 | #822 | 71.7 |
| 1955 | 117 | #911 | 59.8 |
| 1954 | 116 | #893 | 59.7 |
| 1953 | 90 | #1,014 | 47.8 |
| 1952 | 97 | #949 | 52.3 |
| 1951 | 50 | #1,324 | 27.8 |
| 1950 | 38 | #1,512 | 22.2 |
| 1949 | 33 | #1,646 | 19.3 |
| 1948 | 20 | #2,221 | 11.8 |
| 1947 | 13 | #2,987 | 7.3 |
| 1946 | 11 | #3,139 | 7.0 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,859 | 5.4 |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,056 | 3.6 |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,594 | 5.9 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,739 | 4.4 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,697 | 4.5 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,623 | 4.7 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,652 | 6.7 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,442 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lise a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lise has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 68 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lise: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lise, and how old are they?
2,360 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 85% of the 2,791 Americans ever recorded as Lise. The median Lise alive today is 64 years old; half are between 57 and 69.
The 2020 Census counted 3,940 people named Lise (3,929 women and girls, 11 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,481 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 17 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,430 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 689 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 155 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 45 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 22 |
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).
Where are babies named Lise born?
The states with the most babies named Lise are New York, California and Illinois, with 57% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 292 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| California | 284 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 87 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 69 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New Hampshire | 68 | not ranked | 6.2× |
| Massachusetts | 67 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Maine | 43 | not ranked | 2.6× |
| New Jersey | 43 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Connecticut | 42 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 39 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Lise is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lise is most over-represented in New York: since 1922 it was given 1.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Lise with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 979,489 babies since 1880, Lise is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 268 babies recorded by SSA was a Lise (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Lise
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 Lise and names like it
- Compare Lise and LisaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sLise peaked in 1959.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lise since 1910.
- French namesWiktionary’s origin for Lise: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1959The year the most babies were named Lise.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Lise alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.