Liesl
Liesl is a girl's name that peaked in 1966, when it was the 1,042nd most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 4,265th. About 1,900 Liesls are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 32.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Liesl
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,949
- Estimated living today
- 1,900
- Median age today
- 32
- Peak year
- 1966
- Best rank
- 1,042nd
- Rank in 2025
- 4,265th
- First recorded
- 1965
How old the living Liesls are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,949 babies given the name since 1965, about 1,900 are alive — 96 in every hundred. Roughly 660 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1993 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Liesls
- Liesl Karlstadt (1892–1960)German actress
People named Liesl with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Liesl is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Liesl is most concentrated in Minnesota (4.9×), California (3.2×), Texas (2.1×), New York (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1966
The most popular girls’ names the year Liesl peaked:
Liesl elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belgium girls | Liesl | 394 | 309th |
| England and Wales girls | Liesl | 34 | 4,192nd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Liesl: rank by region
In 2019, Liesl was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Liesl | 800 | 5 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Related names
Liesl against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.