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 32 0.000014393 32 100%
1931 28 0.000013306 28 100%
1932 40 0.000018946 40 100%
1933 21 0.000010503 21 100%
1934 32 0.000015408 32 100%
1935 31 0.000014833 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 0.000038651 89 100%
1941 92 0.000037761 92 100%
1942 124 0.000045392 124 100%
1943 162 0.000057395 162 100%
1944 193 0.000071746 193 100%
1945 250 0.000094238 250 100%
1946 327 0.000102339 327 100%
1947 423 0.000117426 423 100%
1948 468 0.000135554 468 100%
1949 596 0.000171031 596 100%
1950 1175 0.000335392 1175 100%
1951 1698 0.000460947 1698 100%
1952 2849 0.00075013 2842 7 100%
1953 3612 0.000937302 3603 9 100%
1954 5921 0.001487433 5912 9 100%
1955 8559 0.002131739 8539 20 100%
1956 11031 0.002675454 11012 19 100%
1957 15167 0.003609418 15138 29 100%
1958 20238 0.004895206 20202 36 100%
1959 25759 0.006196952 25700 59 100%
1960 33783 0.008132798 33697 86 99%
1961 42798 0.010332807 42717 81 100%
1962 46179 0.011445117 46074 105 100%
1963 56157 0.014187036 56037 120 100%
1964 54400 0.013993339 54269 131 100%
1965 60445 0.01667227 60268 177 99%
1966 57067 0.016419461 56916 151 99%
1967 52556 0.015480946 52436 120 100%
1968 49707 0.014713339 49535 172 99%
1969 45176 0.012998982 45027 149 99%
1970 39103 0.010842361 38965 138 99%
1971 33041 0.009626535 32911 130 99%
1972 27640 0.008794095 27544 96 99%
1973 22737 0.007536664 22671 66 99%
1974 19851 0.006529934 19777 74 99%
1975 18206 0.006029729 18137 69 99%
1976 17409 0.00573738 17348 61 99%
1977 17067 0.005373043 17014 53 99%
1978 17084 0.005382788 17034 50 99%
1979 17353 0.005215871 17285 68 99%
1980 15726 0.004565552 15665 61 99%
1981 14358 0.00415051 14293 65 99%
1982 12681 0.003614941 12637 44 99%
1983 11522 0.003326908 11470 52 99%
1984 10283 0.002947554 10237 46 99%
1985 9048 0.002535182 9015 33 99%
1986 7937 0.002231409 7906 31 99%
1987 7575 0.002100963 7549 26 99%
1988 7305 0.00197707 7267 38 99%
1989 6605 0.001718114 6575 30 99%
1990 5360 0.001356191 5346 14 99%
1991 4408 0.001131682 4394 14 99%
1992 3792 0.000987222 3781 11 99%
1993 3230 0.000856733 3223 7 100%
1994 2577 0.000693211 2564 13 99%
1995 2236 0.000610592 2236 100%
1996 1871 0.000513018 1864 7 99%
1997 1546 0.000426408 1546 100%
1998 1364 0.000370845 1364 100%
1999 1113 0.00030132 1113 100%
2000 1095 0.000289699 1088 7 99%
2001 908 0.000242569 908 100%
2002 830 0.000222036 830 100%
2003 811 0.000213308 811 100%
2004 710 0.000185833 710 100%
2005 619 0.000161007 619 100%
2006 608 0.000153699 608 100%
2007 525 0.00013134 525 100%
2008 509 0.000129513 509 100%
2009 420 0.000109962 420 100%
2010 396 0.000107168 396 100%
2011 396 0.000108281 396 100%
2012 398 0.000108843 398 100%
2013 354 0.000097125 354 100%
2014 378 0.000102013 378 100%
2015 374 0.000101085 374 100%
2016 345 0.000094069 345 100%
2017 308 0.000086161 308 100%
2018 308 0.000087646 308 100%
2019 276 0.000079567 276 100%
2020 243 0.000072801 243 100%
2021 248 0.000073271 248 100%
2022 289 0.000085538 289 100%
2023 313 0.000094928 313 100%