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Lisaann vs Lissette

American parents have registered 7,501 Lissettes since 1880, against 582 Lisaanns. Lissette is still ahead, with 19 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Lisaann against Lissette, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Lisaann Lissette

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 69 years in which either name was published, Lissette for 64 years and Lisaann for 5 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Lisaann Lissette
Total US births 5827,501
Most in one year 47254
Babies in 2025 under 519
Estimated living today 5307,200
Median age today 5637
Peak year 19651989
Best rank 1,635th girls766th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked6,116th
First recorded 19581956
Girls / boys 582 / 07,496 / 5

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Lisaanns alive today are over 56; half the Lissettes are over 37. That is 19 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Lisaann and Lissette.