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Liese

Girls' name

Diminutive of Elisabeth

Liese has been given to 144 babies in the U.S. since 1954. 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 1961, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Liese, 1980

1 in 689,000

Liese 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Liese: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Elisabeth

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Liese means

Liese is a diminutive of Elisabeth.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Liese is used in German and Dutch.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈliː.zə/ and /ˈli.sə/ for Liese.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Liese is used in German.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Elisabeth.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 144 girls were recorded with the name Liese between 1954 and 1980. Its highest annual count was 16 in 1961; its best national rank was #3,259 in 1961.

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 Liese?

Liese had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1980, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1980
1 in 689,000
5 of 3,444,198 births
Among girls only
1 in 332,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1980
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
477,468 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Liese 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 1980 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 477,468 children born in 1980 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Liese. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lieses were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Liese was born before 1961 — so the typical Liese is around 64 today.

Median birth year
1961
About 64 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
61.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
96.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
144
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 61.1% of all recorded uses (88).

Is Liese 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 1961 (16)
Years since peak
64
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,259
1961

Spellings of Liese

Liese is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 80.4% against Liese'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.

Where Liese is used

Across 1910–2025, Liese was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Liese has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Liese around the world

Where Liese 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.

  • France
    1912–1943
    #1,049
    in 1943

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Liese 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
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Best rank ever
#3,259
1961
Peak year
1961
16 that year
First recorded
1954
Last recorded
1980
All-time count
144
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Liese

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

LielLielaLiennaLielleLiesaLieslLiezlLieshaLieselLiezelLiebaKaleseTyreseLienTyeseJeneseTreseAlieseLierinRieseLateseDaneseAleeseElese

Sibling names for Liese

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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