Lisel
Lisel was last recorded in 2008, when 6 babies were given it; 89 Americans have been recorded with it between 1966 and 2008 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lisel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lisel?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,640, in 2008; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
12 babies in 1967, the peak
Lisel peaked in 1967, when 12 girls were given it, #3,966 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 6 | #16,640 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,627 | 3.2 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,751 | 2.8 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,701 | 3.3 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,401 | 2.9 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,115 | 4.1 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,398 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,640 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,572 | 4.4 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,326 | 4.1 |
Every recorded year (13)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | 8 | #5,423 | 4.9 |
| 1967 | 12 | #3,966 | 7.3 |
| 1966 | 8 | #5,092 | 4.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lisel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lisel has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 13 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lisel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lisel, and how old are they?
An estimated 84 Americans named Lisel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 256 people named Lisel (251 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 85 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.0 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.
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, Lisel is the third most given (2.7% of them). In 2025 none of their 61 babies recorded by SSA was a Lisel (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.
More about Lisel and names like it
- Compare Lisel and LieslBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sLisel peaked in 1967.
- The top names of 1967The year the most babies were named Lisel.
- Names starting with LMost given first.