Lissette vs Lissie
American parents have registered 7,501 Lissettes since 1880, against 936 Lissies. Lissette is still ahead, with 19 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Lissette Lissie
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 137 years in which either name was published, Lissette for 69 years and Lissie for 68 years. The lead changed hands once.
Side by side
| Lissette | Lissie | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 7,501 | 936 |
| Most in one year | 254 | 31 |
| Babies in 2025 | 19 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 7,200 | 100 |
| Median age today | 37 | 79 |
| Peak year | 1989 | 1924 |
| Best rank | 766th girls | 1,503rd girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 6,116th | unranked |
| First recorded | 1956 | 1880 |
| Girls / boys | 7,496 / 5 | 936 / 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 Lissies alive today are over 79; half the Lissettes are over 37. That is 42 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Lissette Florida (4.3×), New York (3.9×), New Jersey (3.4×)
- Lissie North Carolina (16.2×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Lissette and Lissie.