girls:
966.7k births since 1886
#16 (100th percentile)
boys:
2.8k births since 1952
#2388 (48th percentile)
overall:
969.5k births since 1886
#47 (99th percentile)
The name Lisa is the #47 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 969,467 recorded births since 1886. This represents the 99.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 99.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #16 (99.7% percentile) for all time with 966,683 births since 1886. For boys, it ranks #2,388 (47.9% percentile) for all time with 2,784 births since 1952.
Lisa first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1886 (1886 for girls and 1952 for boys). Birth data for Lisa is available in 120 out of the 138 years between 1886 and 2023 (120 years for girls and 45 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Lisa has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Lisa reached its peak popularity in 1962, achieving the 100.0% percentile (ranked #1) with 22,731 births per million. The name was most common in 1965, with 32,979 births per million (ranked 100.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1968, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Lisa ranks #647 for girls (31.7% percentile) with 179 births per million, which is 0.5% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Lisa reached its peak popularity in 1965, achieving the 25.7% percentile (ranked #478) with 93 births per million. The name was most common in 1968, with 97 births per million (ranked 24.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2000.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lisa".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Lisa. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 73.9% confident that Lisa is pronounced as LEE-suh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LEE-zuh, at 8.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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