Lisa Girl
How popular is Lisa?
#987 girl name in 2025
256 baby girls were named Lisa in the US in 2025, making it the 987th most popular girl name.
Lisa popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #987 for girls (▼ 3 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 256 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-32% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #754 in 2015, #1,031 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1965 (60,271 girls) |
| Highest rank | #1 in 1962 (8 years at that rank) |
| First recorded | 1886 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.2% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Lisa counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Lisa family of names ranked #638 for girls in 2025 (#639 the year before), with 429 babies in all.
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Lisa is most popular
Babies named Lisa per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Indiana: 0.4 per 1,000 (56 girls)
- Kentucky: 0.3 per 1,000 (25 girls)
- California: 0.3 per 1,000 (233 girls)
- New York: 0.3 per 1,000 (102 girls)
- Pennsylvania: 0.2 per 1,000 (56 girls)
Lisa by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 6 | #993 |
| 1890s | 12 | #1,277 |
| 1900s | 21 | #1,250 |
| 1910s | 119 | #1,465 |
| 1920s | 179 | #1,448 |
| 1930s | 440 | #775 |
| 1940s | 2,724 | #318 |
| 1950s | 95,824 | #10 |
| 1960s | 496,987 | #1 |
| 1970s | 228,690 | #2 |
| 1980s | 102,610 | #16 |
| 1990s | 27,433 | #64 |
| 2000s | 7,030 | #294 |
| 2010s | 3,536 | #702 |
| 2020s | 1,618 | #847 |
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Questions
- Is Lisa a boy or girl name?
- Lisa is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Lisa were girls.
- How popular is the name Lisa?
- 256 baby girls were named Lisa in the US in 2025, making it the 987th most popular girl name.
- When was Lisa most popular?
- Lisa peaked in 1965, when 60,271 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #1, held for 8 years starting in 1962.
- How many people are named Lisa?
- 970,012 babies have been named Lisa in the US since 1880. We estimate about 887,006 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 59.
- Where is Lisa most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Lisa was most common in Indiana, at 0.4 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.