girls:
7 births since 1965
#5709 (0th percentile)
boys:
24 births since 1889
#4562 (0th percentile)
overall:
31 births since 1889
#7708 (0th percentile)
The name Lish is the #7,708 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 31 recorded births since 1889. This represents the 0.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,562 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 24 births since 1889. For girls, it ranks #5,709 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 7 births since 1965.
Lish first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1889 (1889 for boys and 1965 for girls). Birth data for Lish is available in 5 out of the 77 years between 1889 and 1965 (4 years for boys and 1 years for girls). 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 Lish has been given predominantly to boys, with 77.4% of all recorded births being male. In 1965, 0.0% of babies named Lish were boys. Interestingly, until around 1956, the name was more popular for boys (100.0% boys from 1889 to 1955), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (100.0% girls from 1956 to 1965).
For boys, Lish reached its peak popularity in 1889, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #202) with 50 births per million. The name was most common in 1889, with 50 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1942.
For girls, Lish reached its peak popularity in 1965, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #755) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1965, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1965.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lish".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Lish. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 87.8% confident that Lish is pronounced as lihsh, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is leesh, at 12.2% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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