Liesl
Liesl is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 22 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 220.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1966100 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1965
- 1,916people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,916 girls have been named Liesl in the United States since 1965, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1966, with 100 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1991, and the 2010s alone account for 22%.
By decade
In 1966, its biggest year
Liesl was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1966 were Lisa, Kimberly, Mary, Michelle and Karen. See all of 1966.
Names that rose and fell with Liesl
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Joellepeak 2017
- Camipeak 1967
- Diapeak 2015
- Larapeak 1969
- Lucipeak 2010
- Timberlypeak 1994
- Lainiepeak 1970
- Lynaepeak 2006
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.