Lysette
Lysette was last recorded in 2018, when 6 babies were given it; 781 Americans have been recorded with it between 1961 and 2018 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lysette by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Lysette mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Lysette is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Lysette?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,934, in 2018; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
34 babies in 1996, the peak
Lysette peaked in 1996, when 34 girls were given it, #3,394 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 6 | #14,934 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,315 | 4.6 |
| 2015 | 5 | #18,091 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,628 | 4.5 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,771 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,933 | 7.4 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,499 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,989 | 4.5 |
| 2009 | 10 | #11,162 | 5.4 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,502 | 5.8 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 15 | #8,365 | 7.8 |
| 2006 | 25 | #5,476 | 13.1 |
| 2005 | 28 | #4,784 | 15.2 |
| 2004 | 17 | #6,968 | 9.3 |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,711 | 11.5 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,287 | 10.0 |
| 2001 | 13 | #8,004 | 7.2 |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,246 | 12.1 |
| 1999 | 24 | #4,665 | 13.5 |
| 1998 | 30 | #3,880 | 17.0 |
| 1997 | 31 | #3,671 | 17.8 |
| 1996 | 34 | #3,394 | 19.4 |
| 1995 | 26 | #4,042 | 14.8 |
| 1994 | 24 | #4,320 | 13.4 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,347 | 9.9 |
| 1992 | 26 | #4,031 | 14.1 |
| 1991 | 23 | #4,418 | 12.3 |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,189 | 9.5 |
| 1989 | 18 | #4,968 | 9.8 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,459 | 5.6 |
| 1987 | 17 | #4,789 | 9.8 |
| 1986 | 21 | #3,966 | 12.2 |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,765 | 9.3 |
| 1984 | 11 | #6,128 | 6.5 |
| 1983 | 16 | #4,590 | 9.6 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,756 | 7.1 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,449 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,578 | 6.0 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,282 | 8.1 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,705 | 5.9 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,149 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,842 | 6.8 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,865 | 5.5 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,595 | 6.8 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,195 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,969 | 7.2 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,709 | 7.2 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,267 | 5.7 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,340 | 4.1 |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,377 | 6.7 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,488 | 6.1 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,192 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,128 | 2.8 |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,152 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lysette a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lysette 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 Lysette: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lysette, and how old are they?
An estimated 759 Americans named Lysette and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 23 and 41. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 698 people named Lysette (698 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 765 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
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 Lysette born?
The states with the most babies named Lysette are California, Texas and New York, with 96% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 139 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Texas | 85 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| New York | 24 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Arizona | 5 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Lysette is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lysette is most over-represented in California: since 1961 it was given 1.4 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 Lysette with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Lysette?
Lysette is a less common spelling of Lisette: SSA has recorded 781 Lysette and 9,581 Lisette since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 17,918 babies since 1880, Lysette is the third most given (4.4% of them). In 2025 none of their 48 babies recorded by SSA was a Lysette (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 Lysette
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 Lysette and names like it
- Compare Lysette and LisetteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sLysette peaked in 1996.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lysette since 1910.
- The top names of 1996The year the most babies were named Lysette.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Lysette alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with LMost given first.