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Lisandro vs Lissa

American parents have registered 3,979 Lissas since 1880, against 2,416 Lisandros. But in 2025 it was Lisandro that was commoner, 130 babies to 12.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Lisandro against Lissa, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Lisandro Lissa

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 86 years in which either name was published, Lissa for 57 years and Lisandro for 29 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Lisandro Lissa
Total US births 2,4163,979
Most in one year 185122
Babies in 2025 13012
Estimated living today 2,4003,600
Median age today 1753
Peak year 20021963
Best rank 898th boys959th girls
Rank in 2025 1,401st8,362nd
First recorded 19581923
Girls / boys 5 / 2,4113,979 / 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 Lissas alive today are over 53; half the Lisandros are over 17. That is 36 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 Lissa
France 3,635135
Belgium 218291
England and Wales 113

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 Lissa.