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Lisandro vs Lisbeth

American parents have registered 5,934 Lisbeths since 1880, against 2,416 Lisandros. But in 2025 it was Lisandro that was commoner, 130 babies to 24.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Lisandro against Lisbeth, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Lisandro Lisbeth

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 111 years in which either name was published, Lisbeth for 100 years and Lisandro for 11 years. The lead changed hands 9 times.

Side by side

  Lisandro Lisbeth
Total US births 2,4165,934
Most in one year 185409
Babies in 2025 13024
Estimated living today 2,4005,400
Median age today 1726
Peak year 20022002
Best rank 898th boys624th girls
Rank in 2025 1,401st5,238th
First recorded 19581911
Girls / boys 5 / 2,4115,934 / 0

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 Lisbeths alive today are over 26; half the Lisandros are over 17. That is 9 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Lisandro Lisbeth
France 3,635625
Belgium 2185
England and Wales 1121

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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