Lisette
Lisette was given to 29 girls in 2025, #4,711 among girls’ names; 9,581 Americans have been recorded with it since 1882 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,080 Americans named Lisette and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 26 and 49.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lisette by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Lisette mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Lisette is “a female given name from French.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Lisette?
#4,711 among girls’ names, 2025
Lisette fell from #3,074 in 2015 to #4,711 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 30.8 to 18.0 per million.
395 babies in 1999, the peak
Lisette peaked in 1999, when 395 girls were given it, #616 among girls’ names. The 29 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29 | #4,711 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 30 | #4,620 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 29 | #4,705 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,600 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 31 | #4,461 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 26 | #4,953 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 36 | #4,045 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 29 | #4,726 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 41 | #3,741 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 42 | #3,683 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (96)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 55 | #3,074 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 59 | #2,908 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 61 | #2,827 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 67 | #2,671 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 81 | #2,312 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 110 | #1,855 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 89 | #2,219 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 119 | #1,819 | 0.06 |
| 2007 | 121 | #1,777 | 0.06 |
| 2006 | 153 | #1,457 | 0.08 |
| 2005 | 183 | #1,243 | 0.10 |
| 2004 | 234 | #1,011 | 0.13 |
| 2003 | 178 | #1,201 | 0.10 |
| 2002 | 214 | #1,017 | 0.12 |
| 2001 | 229 | #958 | 0.13 |
| 2000 | 256 | #860 | 0.14 |
| 1999 | 395 | #616 | 0.22 |
| 1998 | 195 | #1,019 | 0.11 |
| 1997 | 286 | #747 | 0.16 |
| 1996 | 187 | #1,007 | 0.11 |
| 1995 | 169 | #1,058 | 0.10 |
| 1994 | 174 | #1,048 | 0.10 |
| 1993 | 164 | #1,098 | 0.09 |
| 1992 | 244 | #819 | 0.13 |
| 1991 | 185 | #1,005 | 0.10 |
| 1990 | 200 | #945 | 0.11 |
| 1989 | 195 | #921 | 0.11 |
| 1988 | 159 | #1,022 | 0.09 |
| 1987 | 179 | #926 | 0.10 |
| 1986 | 171 | #932 | 0.10 |
| 1985 | 172 | #921 | 0.10 |
| 1984 | 149 | #971 | 0.09 |
| 1983 | 145 | #997 | 0.09 |
| 1982 | 157 | #947 | 0.09 |
| 1981 | 183 | #851 | 0.11 |
| 1980 | 160 | #937 | 0.10 |
| 1979 | 148 | #970 | 0.09 |
| 1978 | 217 | #726 | 0.14 |
| 1977 | 220 | #704 | 0.14 |
| 1976 | 146 | #906 | 0.10 |
| 1975 | 158 | #846 | 0.11 |
| 1974 | 126 | #977 | 0.09 |
| 1973 | 151 | #854 | 0.10 |
| 1972 | 161 | #828 | 0.11 |
| 1971 | 186 | #784 | 0.11 |
| 1970 | 224 | #700 | 0.13 |
| 1969 | 202 | #700 | 0.12 |
| 1968 | 182 | #730 | 0.11 |
| 1967 | 163 | #775 | 0.10 |
| 1966 | 118 | #936 | 0.07 |
| 1965 | 79 | #1,213 | 0.04 |
| 1964 | 76 | #1,274 | 0.04 |
| 1963 | 68 | #1,345 | 0.04 |
| 1962 | 56 | #1,503 | 0.03 |
| 1961 | 63 | #1,413 | 0.03 |
| 1960 | 41 | #1,778 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 37 | #1,839 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 42 | #1,666 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 29 | #2,045 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 34 | #1,851 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 24 | #2,253 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 29 | #1,967 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 21 | #2,335 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 16 | #2,734 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 15 | #2,757 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 16 | #2,617 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 8 | #4,084 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 15 | #2,652 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,194 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 11 | #3,140 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,549 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 10 | #3,168 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 9 | #3,323 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,740 | under 0.01 |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,112 | under 0.01 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,291 | under 0.01 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,698 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,633 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 8 | #2,769 | 0.01 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,820 | 0.01 |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,239 | 0.02 |
| 1905 | 5 | #2,100 | 0.02 |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,704 | 0.02 |
| 1885 | 7 | #883 | 0.05 |
| 1884 | 5 | #1,099 | 0.04 |
| 1882 | 5 | #980 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lisette a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lisette has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 96 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lisette: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lisette, and how old are they?
9,080 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 9,581 Americans ever recorded as Lisette. The median Lisette alive today is 36 years old; half are between 26 and 49.
The 2020 Census counted 9,307 people named Lisette (9,299 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 9,048 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 17 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 498 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,460 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,760 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,880 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 483 |
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 Lisette born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 7 | #2,663 | 2.1× |
Where Lisette is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lisette is most over-represented in New York: since 1910 it was given 2.4 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 Lisette 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 18,350 babies since 1880, Lisette is the most given (52% of them). In 2025 it was given to 29 of their 48 babies (60%), 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 Lisette
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 Lisette and names like it
- Compare Lisette and LissetteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sLisette peaked in 1999.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lisette since 1910.
- French namesWiktionary’s origin for Lisette: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Lisette.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Lisette alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with LMost given first.