Lise
Lise is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 5 births. Its best rank was 819th, in 1959.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 50.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1959157 births
- Best rank
- #819in 1959
- Since 1922
- 2,790people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,790 girls have been named Lise in the United States since 1922, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1959, with 157 births.
The name has all but left use: 5 births in 2024, against 157 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1961, and the 1950s alone account for 39%. It has spent 10 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Lise | |
|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 5 | |
| 1930s | 17 | |
| 1940s | 102 | |
| 1950s | 1,084 | |
| 1960s | 1,006 | |
| 1970s | 333 | |
| 1980s | 140 | |
| 1990s | 47 | |
| 2000s | 23 | |
| 2010s | 28 | |
| 2020s | 5 |
In 1959, its biggest year
Lise was the 819th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1959 were Mary, Susan, Linda, Karen and Donna. See all of 1959.
Names that rose and fell with Lise
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Cathipeak 1961
- Denesepeak 1954
- Terriepeak 1961
- Denisepeak 1961
- Sheliapeak 1959
- Roxanepeak 1956
- Merripeak 1963
- Cindiepeak 1957
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.