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Liesa

Girls' name

Diminutive of Elisabeth

Liesa has been given to 392 babies in the U.S. since 1952. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1963, with 27 recorded.

Babies named Liesa, 1993

1 in 538,000

Liesa over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Liesa: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Elisabeth

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Liesa means

Liesa is a diminutive of Elisabeth.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Liesa is used in German.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈliː.za/ for Liesa.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Liesa → Elisabeth. The family’s meaning is “my God is an oath”, recorded in English with the source elements Elishéva.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Elisabeth.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 392 girls were recorded with the name Liesa between 1952 and 1993. Its highest annual count was 27 in 1963; its best national rank was #2,333 in 1963.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Liesa?

Liesa had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1993, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1993
1 in 538,000
7 of 3,768,729 births
Among girls only
1 in 258,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1993
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
373,185 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Liesa sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1993 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 373,185 children born in 1993 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Liesa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Liesas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Liesa was born before 1963 — so the typical Liesa is around 62 today.

Median birth year
1963
About 62 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
53.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
23.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
392
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 53.3% of all recorded uses (209).

Is Liesa rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1963 (27)
Years since peak
62
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,333
1963

Spellings of Liesa

Liesa is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 45.2% against Liesa's 0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Liesa around the world

Where Liesa ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    1957–1995
    #712
    in 1995

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Liesa by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,333
1963
Peak year
1963
27 that year
First recorded
1952
Last recorded
1993
All-time count
392
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Liesa

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Liesa

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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