Lysa
Lysa was last recorded in 2022, when 5 babies were given it; 761 Americans have been recorded with it between 1951 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lysa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lysa?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,768, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
33 babies in 1968, the peak
Lysa peaked in 1968, when 33 girls were given it, #2,111 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5 | #16,768 | 3.0 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,770 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,414 | 4.0 |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,332 | 2.6 |
| 2006 | 5 | #18,914 | 2.6 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,518 | 4.3 |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,311 | 2.7 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,612 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,921 | 6.1 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,900 | 6.3 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 15 | #6,133 | 8.5 |
| 1994 | 19 | #5,144 | 10.6 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,466 | 7.7 |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,888 | 8.7 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,829 | 8.5 |
| 1990 | 21 | #4,609 | 11.1 |
| 1989 | 18 | #4,967 | 9.8 |
| 1988 | 18 | #4,763 | 10.1 |
| 1987 | 17 | #4,787 | 9.8 |
| 1986 | 18 | #4,457 | 10.5 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,222 | 8.1 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,836 | 4.8 |
| 1983 | 9 | #7,059 | 5.4 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,653 | 5.9 |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,125 | 8.4 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,752 | 7.2 |
| 1979 | 14 | #4,980 | 8.7 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,704 | 5.9 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,720 | 7.2 |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,261 | 10.2 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,240 | 6.2 |
| 1974 | 15 | #4,143 | 10.2 |
| 1973 | 16 | #3,882 | 11.0 |
| 1972 | 16 | #3,818 | 10.5 |
| 1971 | 23 | #3,022 | 13.8 |
| 1970 | 16 | #3,802 | 9.2 |
| 1969 | 21 | #2,967 | 12.4 |
| 1968 | 33 | #2,111 | 20.1 |
| 1967 | 21 | #2,744 | 12.7 |
| 1966 | 28 | #2,285 | 16.5 |
| 1965 | 27 | #2,320 | 15.3 |
| 1964 | 19 | #2,971 | 10.0 |
| 1963 | 27 | #2,335 | 14.0 |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,424 | 5.1 |
| 1961 | 21 | #2,718 | 10.4 |
| 1960 | 24 | #2,481 | 11.9 |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,362 | 6.9 |
| 1958 | 17 | #2,922 | 8.5 |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,595 | 5.9 |
| 1956 | 11 | #3,820 | 5.5 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,580 | 3.1 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,262 | 2.6 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,285 | 3.2 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,887 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lysa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lysa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 54 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lysa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lysa, and how old are they?
An estimated 702 Americans named Lysa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 51 years old and half are between 37 and 60. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,120 people named Lysa (1,119 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 714 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Lysa?
Lysa is a less common spelling of Lisa: SSA has recorded 761 Lysa and 970,012 Lisa since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 980,045 babies since 1880, Lysa is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 268 babies recorded by SSA was a Lysa (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 Lysa
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 Lysa and names like it
- Compare Lysa and LisaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sLysa peaked in 1968.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lysa since 1910.
- The top names of 1968The year the most babies were named Lysa.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Lysa alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with LMost given first.