Name Trends

See the popularity of names over time in the USA

How popular is “Lisa” in the USA?

Number of people named “Lisa” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Lisa” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Lisa” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Lisa” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Lisa” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Lisa” by birth year

This chart shows how “Lisa” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1886 6 0.0000235 6 100%
1896 5 0.000013987 5 100%
1899 7 0.000020635 7 100%
1904 9 0.000022306 9 100%
1905 5 0.000011795 5 100%
1907 7 0.000015041 7 100%
1910 9 0.000015236 9 100%
1911 9 0.000013969 9 100%
1912 7 0.000007085 7 100%
1913 16 0.000014071 16 100%
1914 12 0.000008473 12 100%
1915 14 0.00000764 14 100%
1916 11 0.000005686 11 100%
1917 13 0.000006478 13 100%
1918 14 0.000006448 14 100%
1919 14 0.000006634 14 100%
1920 17 0.000007513 17 100%
1921 17 0.000007282 17 100%
1922 15 0.000006553 15 100%
1923 15 0.000006515 15 100%
1924 23 0.000009657 23 100%
1925 13 0.000005571 13 100%
1926 31 0.000013502 31 100%
1927 14 0.000006036 14 100%
1928 12 0.000005308 12 100%
1929 22 0.000010036 22 100%
1930 34 0.000015293 34 100%
1931 28 0.000013306 28 100%
1932 40 0.000018946 40 100%
1933 21 0.000010503 21 100%
1934 32 0.000015409 32 100%
1935 31 0.000014834 31 100%
1936 47 0.000022623 47 100%
1937 53 0.000024875 53 100%
1938 79 0.000035705 79 100%
1939 77 0.000034946 77 100%
1940 89 0.000038652 89 100%
1941 92 0.000037762 92 100%
1942 124 0.000045393 124 100%
1943 162 0.000057396 162 100%
1944 193 0.000071747 193 100%
1945 250 0.000094238 250 100%
1946 328 0.000102652 328 100%
1947 423 0.000117428 423 100%
1948 468 0.000135555 468 100%
1949 597 0.00017132 597 100%
1950 1176 0.000335674 1176 100%
1951 1698 0.000460941 1698 100%
1952 2851 0.000750652 2844 7 100%
1953 3612 0.000937303 3603 9 100%
1954 5921 0.001487423 5912 9 100%
1955 8559 0.00213172 8539 20 100%
1956 11032 0.002675666 11013 19 100%
1957 15168 0.003609285 15139 29 100%
1958 20235 0.004896235 20199 36 100%
1959 25753 0.006195507 25694 59 100%
1960 33789 0.008133518 33703 86 99%
1961 42792 0.010333921 42711 81 100%
1962 46178 0.011444226 46073 105 100%
1963 56155 0.014185607 56035 120 100%
1964 54401 0.013993204 54270 131 100%
1965 60444 0.016671332 60267 177 99%
1966 57069 0.016419752 56918 151 99%
1967 52556 0.015480367 52436 120 100%
1968 49710 0.014713382 49537 173 99%
1969 45174 0.012997296 45025 149 99%
1970 39102 0.010841101 38964 138 99%
1971 33042 0.00962627 32912 130 99%
1972 27643 0.008794208 27547 96 99%
1973 22739 0.007536655 22673 66 99%
1974 19850 0.006529163 19776 74 99%
1975 18205 0.006028685 18136 69 99%
1976 17410 0.0057371 17349 61 99%
1977 17067 0.005372551 17014 53 99%
1978 17084 0.005382159 17034 50 99%
1979 17353 0.005215319 17285 68 99%
1980 15727 0.00456538 15666 61 99%
1981 14358 0.004150205 14293 65 99%
1982 12681 0.003614695 12637 44 99%
1983 11522 0.00332675 11470 52 99%
1984 10283 0.002947486 10237 46 99%
1985 9048 0.002535154 9015 33 99%
1986 7937 0.002231406 7906 31 99%
1987 7575 0.002100992 7549 26 99%
1988 7305 0.001977125 7267 38 99%
1989 6603 0.001717607 6573 30 99%
1990 5360 0.001356239 5346 14 99%
1991 4409 0.001131968 4395 14 99%
1992 3792 0.000987252 3781 11 99%
1993 3230 0.000856768 3223 7 100%
1994 2577 0.000693235 2564 13 99%
1995 2236 0.000610614 2236 100%
1996 1871 0.000513036 1864 7 99%
1997 1546 0.000426421 1546 100%
1998 1363 0.000370584 1363 100%
1999 1112 0.00030106 1112 100%
2000 1095 0.000289712 1088 7 99%
2001 908 0.00024258 908 100%
2002 830 0.000222056 830 100%
2003 811 0.000213322 811 100%
2004 710 0.000185846 710 100%
2005 619 0.000161023 619 100%
2006 608 0.000153717 608 100%
2007 525 0.00013136 525 100%
2008 508 0.000129281 508 100%
2009 420 0.000109982 420 100%
2010 396 0.000107188 396 100%
2011 396 0.000108306 396 100%
2012 398 0.000108871 398 100%
2013 354 0.000097155 354 100%
2014 378 0.000102047 378 100%
2015 374 0.000101125 374 100%
2016 344 0.000093839 344 100%
2017 308 0.000086208 308 100%
2018 306 0.000087136 306 100%
2019 276 0.000079635 276 100%
2020 242 0.000072586 242 100%
2021 248 0.000073379 248 100%
2022 289 0.000085963 289 100%