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Lisette vs Lissandro

American parents have registered 9,581 Lisettes since 1880, against 218 Lissandros. Lisette is still ahead, with 29 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Lisette against Lissandro, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Lisette 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

Lisette has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1882 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2022, when Lisette had 18 and Lissandro had 11.

Side by side

  Lisette Lissandro
Total US births 9,581218
Most in one year 39522
Babies in 2025 2913
Estimated living today 9,100220
Median age today 3510
Peak year 19992010
Best rank 615th girls4,366th boys
Rank in 2025 4,661st6,446th
First recorded 18822002
Girls / boys 9,581 / 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 Lisettes alive today are over 35; half the Lissandros are over 10. That is 25 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 Lisette Lissandro
France 4,5301,765
Belgium 26785

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: Lisette and Lissandro.