Liston
Liston was last recorded in 2024, when 6 babies were given it; 930 Americans have been recorded with it between 1888 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Liston by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Liston?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,797, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
27 babies in 1923, the peak
Liston peaked in 1923, when 27 boys were given it, #1,450 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #11,797 | 3.5 |
| 2023 | 5 | #13,392 | 2.9 |
| 2019 | 6 | #11,600 | 3.3 |
| 2017 | 8 | #9,368 | 4.3 |
| 2016 | 6 | #11,596 | 3.2 |
| 2015 | 8 | #9,232 | 4.2 |
| 2014 | 8 | #9,288 | 4.2 |
| 2013 | 7 | #10,308 | 3.7 |
| 2009 | 7 | #10,560 | 3.5 |
| 2008 | 10 | #8,059 | 4.9 |
Every recorded year (86)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 7 | #10,218 | 3.4 |
| 2003 | 5 | #12,017 | 2.5 |
| 2001 | 5 | #11,630 | 2.6 |
| 1999 | 7 | #8,370 | 3.6 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,563 | 3.2 |
| 1995 | 6 | #8,443 | 3.2 |
| 1992 | 5 | #9,279 | 2.5 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,702 | 2.5 |
| 1988 | 8 | #5,509 | 4.2 |
| 1984 | 6 | #6,040 | 3.3 |
| 1981 | 8 | #4,785 | 4.5 |
| 1980 | 9 | #4,363 | 5.0 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,650 | 2.9 |
| 1977 | 7 | #4,920 | 4.3 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,966 | 3.2 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,683 | 3.2 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,857 | 3.8 |
| 1971 | 8 | #3,826 | 4.5 |
| 1970 | 5 | #5,154 | 2.7 |
| 1969 | 9 | #3,221 | 5.0 |
| 1966 | 8 | #3,146 | 4.5 |
| 1965 | 9 | #2,909 | 4.8 |
| 1964 | 10 | #2,766 | 5.0 |
| 1963 | 6 | #3,867 | 3.0 |
| 1962 | 18 | #1,934 | 8.7 |
| 1961 | 7 | #3,546 | 3.3 |
| 1960 | 6 | #3,894 | 2.8 |
| 1959 | 15 | #2,165 | 7.0 |
| 1958 | 9 | #2,942 | 4.2 |
| 1957 | 7 | #3,433 | 3.2 |
| 1956 | 15 | #2,135 | 7.1 |
| 1955 | 7 | #3,373 | 3.4 |
| 1954 | 7 | #3,323 | 3.4 |
| 1953 | 14 | #2,155 | 7.1 |
| 1952 | 9 | #2,798 | 4.6 |
| 1951 | 15 | #2,017 | 8.0 |
| 1950 | 13 | #2,159 | 7.3 |
| 1949 | 9 | #2,725 | 5.1 |
| 1947 | 15 | #2,038 | 8.2 |
| 1946 | 12 | #2,222 | 7.4 |
| 1945 | 13 | #1,980 | 9.7 |
| 1944 | 13 | #2,045 | 9.5 |
| 1943 | 13 | #2,131 | 9.1 |
| 1942 | 16 | #1,840 | 11.6 |
| 1941 | 16 | #1,796 | 13.0 |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,420 | 8.6 |
| 1939 | 20 | #1,516 | 18.1 |
| 1938 | 8 | #2,782 | 7.2 |
| 1937 | 9 | #2,604 | 8.4 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,383 | 5.8 |
| 1935 | 12 | #2,198 | 11.5 |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,198 | 11.6 |
| 1933 | 22 | #1,483 | 22.2 |
| 1932 | 15 | #1,969 | 14.4 |
| 1931 | 14 | #2,062 | 13.5 |
| 1930 | 16 | #1,935 | 14.6 |
| 1929 | 21 | #1,649 | 19.5 |
| 1928 | 15 | #2,116 | 13.5 |
| 1927 | 15 | #2,162 | 13.3 |
| 1926 | 18 | #1,876 | 16.2 |
| 1925 | 13 | #2,379 | 11.6 |
| 1924 | 15 | #2,176 | 13.2 |
| 1923 | 27 | #1,450 | 24.6 |
| 1922 | 18 | #1,932 | 16.5 |
| 1921 | 19 | #1,870 | 17.3 |
| 1920 | 16 | #2,100 | 15.0 |
| 1919 | 26 | #1,434 | 26.5 |
| 1918 | 10 | #2,805 | 9.9 |
| 1917 | 14 | #2,146 | 15.1 |
| 1916 | 23 | #1,491 | 25.8 |
| 1915 | 19 | #1,636 | 22.4 |
| 1914 | 15 | #1,656 | 22.9 |
| 1913 | 6 | #2,669 | 11.7 |
| 1912 | 5 | #2,753 | 11.6 |
| 1911 | 5 | #1,897 | 22.1 |
| 1888 | 6 | #998 | 49.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Liston a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Liston has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 86 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Liston: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Liston, and how old are they?
An estimated 377 Americans named Liston and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (41% of everyone recorded); the median is 57 years old and half are between 30 and 73. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 480 people named Liston (13 women and girls, 467 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 428 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% above 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).
Where are babies named Liston born?
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | 133 | not ranked | 7.8× |
| North Carolina | 54 | not ranked | 1.8× |
Where Liston is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Liston is most over-represented in South Carolina: since 1910 it was given 7.8 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 boys’ 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 Liston with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Liston
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 Liston and names like it
- Compare Liston and LarenceBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sListon peaked in 1923.
- South Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Liston since 1910.
- The top names of 1923The year the most babies were named Liston.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Liston alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.