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Lisbeth vs Lissandro

American parents have registered 5,934 Lisbeths since 1880, against 218 Lissandros. Lisbeth is still ahead, with 24 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Lisbeth Lissandro

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

Lisbeth has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1911 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Lisbeth had 24 and Lissandro had 13.

Side by side

  Lisbeth Lissandro
Total US births 5,934218
Most in one year 40922
Babies in 2025 2413
Estimated living today 5,400220
Median age today 2610
Peak year 20022010
Best rank 624th girls4,366th boys
Rank in 2025 5,238th6,446th
First recorded 19112002
Girls / boys 5,934 / 00 / 218

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 Lissandros are over 10. That is 16 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

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

Country Lisbeth Lissandro
France 6251,765
Belgium 585

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: Lisbeth and Lissandro.