Lisa
Lisa is ranked 985th among girls in 2024 (262 births). It was the number one girl’s name in 1962–1969.
- Rank in 2024
- #985down 134 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 2620.02% of girls
- Peak year
- 196560,269 births
- Best rank
- #1first in 1962
- Since 1886
- 969,749people given the name
The story in the numbers
966,965 girls have been named Lisa in the United States since 1886, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1965, with 60,269 births — 3.4% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 262 births in 2024, against 60,269 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1967, and the 1960s alone account for 51%. It has spent 86 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 40 of them in the top 100 and 18 in the top 10.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 2,784 boys have also been given it, 0.29% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Lisa | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 6 | |
| 1890s | 12 | |
| 1900s | 21 | |
| 1910s | 119 | |
| 1920s | 179 | |
| 1930s | 440 | |
| 1940s | 2,724 | |
| 1950s | 95,823 | |
| 1960s | 496,983 | |
| 1970s | 228,687 | |
| 1980s | 102,617 | |
| 1990s | 27,433 | |
| 2000s | 7,029 | |
| 2010s | 3,534 | |
| 2020s | 1,358 |
In 1965, its biggest year
Lisa was the most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1965 were Lisa, Mary, Karen, Kimberly and Susan. See all of 1965.
Names that rose and fell with Lisa
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Machellepeak 1968
- Tracyepeak 1965
- Tamelapeak 1959
- Missypeak 1967
- Kimberleypeak 1967
- Tammypeak 1963
- Tammerapeak 1963
- Shellipeak 1968
Other spellings in the data
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.