Lisette vs Lisle
American parents have registered 9,581 Lisettes since 1880, against 564 Lisles. Lisette is still ahead, with 29 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Lisette Lisle
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 128 years in which either name was published, Lisette for 86 years and Lisle for 42 years. The lead changed hands 12 times.
- 1882–1885 Lisette ahead
- 1886–1898 Lisle ahead
- 1903–1907 Lisette ahead
- 1913–1941 Lisle ahead
- 1950–2025 Lisette ahead
8 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Lisette | Lisle | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 9,581 | 564 |
| Most in one year | 395 | 21 |
| Babies in 2025 | 29 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 9,100 | 130 |
| Median age today | 35 | 73 |
| Peak year | 1999 | 1924 |
| Best rank | 615th girls | 1,727th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 4,661st | unranked |
| First recorded | 1882 | 1885 |
| Girls / boys | 9,581 / 0 | 21 / 543 |
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 Lisles alive today are over 73; half the Lisettes are over 35. That is 38 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Lisette and Lisle.