Name Trends

See the popularity of first 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 0.000005572 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 0.000022622 47 100%
1937 53 0.000024875 53 100%
1938 79 0.000035705 79 100%
1939 77 0.000034945 77 100%
1940 89 0.000038651 89 100%
1941 92 0.00003776 92 100%
1942 124 0.000045391 124 100%
1943 162 0.000057395 162 100%
1944 193 0.000071745 193 100%
1945 250 0.000094236 250 100%
1946 327 0.000102338 327 100%
1947 423 0.000117424 423 100%
1948 468 0.000135553 468 100%
1949 596 0.00017103 596 100%
1950 1175 0.000335393 1175 100%
1951 1698 0.000460945 1698 100%
1952 2849 0.000750131 2842 7 100%
1953 3611 0.000937035 3602 9 100%
1954 5922 0.001487675 5913 9 100%
1955 8559 0.002131714 8539 20 100%
1956 11031 0.002675455 11012 19 100%
1957 15169 0.003609825 15140 29 100%
1958 20236 0.004895131 20200 36 100%
1959 25761 0.006195539 25702 59 100%
1960 33781 0.008132524 33695 86 99%
1961 42800 0.010332421 42719 81 100%
1962 46179 0.011443554 46074 105 100%
1963 56160 0.014188267 56040 120 100%
1964 54402 0.013993706 54271 131 100%
1965 60446 0.016672693 60269 177 99%
1966 57069 0.01641964 56918 151 99%
1967 52556 0.015480882 52436 120 100%
1968 49705 0.014712529 49533 172 99%
1969 45177 0.012999367 45028 149 99%
1970 39103 0.010842326 38965 138 99%
1971 33040 0.009626044 32910 130 99%
1972 27639 0.008793844 27543 96 99%
1973 22739 0.00753724 22673 66 99%
1974 19851 0.006529937 19777 74 99%
1975 18208 0.006030349 18139 69 99%
1976 17409 0.005737402 17348 61 99%
1977 17066 0.00537259 17013 53 99%
1978 17084 0.005382703 17034 50 99%
1979 17353 0.00521581 17285 68 99%
1980 15727 0.004565821 15666 61 99%
1981 14360 0.004151039 14295 65 99%
1982 12681 0.003614919 12637 44 99%
1983 11523 0.003327136 11471 52 99%
1984 10283 0.00294747 10237 46 99%
1985 9048 0.002535086 9015 33 99%
1986 7937 0.002231326 7906 31 99%
1987 7575 0.002100891 7549 26 99%
1988 7305 0.001976973 7267 38 99%
1989 6604 0.001717802 6574 30 99%
1990 5361 0.001356364 5347 14 99%
1991 4409 0.001131887 4395 14 99%
1992 3792 0.000987173 3781 11 99%
1993 3230 0.000856701 3223 7 100%
1994 2577 0.000693179 2564 13 99%
1995 2236 0.000610569 2236 100%
1996 1871 0.000512997 1864 7 99%
1997 1546 0.000426395 1546 100%
1998 1364 0.000370833 1364 100%
1999 1113 0.00030131 1113 100%
2000 1095 0.00028969 1088 7 99%
2001 908 0.000242561 908 100%
2002 830 0.000222027 830 100%
2003 811 0.000213291 811 100%
2004 710 0.000185819 710 100%
2005 619 0.000160995 619 100%
2006 609 0.000153936 609 100%
2007 525 0.000131326 525 100%
2008 509 0.000129495 509 100%
2009 420 0.000109943 420 100%
2010 396 0.00010715 396 100%
2011 396 0.000108262 396 100%
2012 398 0.000108821 398 100%
2013 354 0.000097102 354 100%
2014 378 0.000101986 378 100%
2015 374 0.000101056 374 100%
2016 345 0.000094039 345 100%
2017 309 0.000086405 309 100%
2018 308 0.000087602 308 100%
2019 276 0.000079518 276 100%
2020 243 0.000072742 243 100%
2021 248 0.000073201 248 100%
2022 290 0.000085719 290 100%
2023 315 0.000095132 315 100%
2024 262 0.000078714 262 100%

Explore other names

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