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Liesel

#4,829 in 2025Girls' name

My God is an oath, through Elisabeth

Liesel has been given to 1,241 babies in the U.S. since 1954. In 2025 it ranked #4,829 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 63 recorded.

Babies named Liesel, 2025

1 in 118,000

Liesel over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Liesel: meaning, origin, and history

My God is an oath, through Elisabeth

German

What Liesel means

Liesel belongs to the name family reached through Liesel → Elisabeth. Its meaning is “my God is an oath”.

Origin, language, and formation

Liesel is used in English and German. Its origins include German.

Liesel comes through German Liesel.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Elisabeth.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,241 girls were recorded with the name Liesel between 1954 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 63 in 2015; its best national rank was #2,796 in 2015.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,757 in 2020 to #4,829 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,796 in 2015 to #4,829 in 2025.

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 Liesel?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 118,000
28 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 57,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,829
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
82,069 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Liesel 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 2025 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 82,069 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Liesel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Liesels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Liesel was born before 2008 — so the typical Liesel is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
32.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
62.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,241
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 32.2% of all recorded uses (399).

Is Liesel 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
+890
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,072
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,033
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.44×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
44.4%
Peak was 2015 (63)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,796
2015

Spellings of Liesel

Liesel is not the most common spelling — Linsey is, with 26.5% against Liesel's 6.4%.

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 Liesel is used

Across 1910–2025, Liesel was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 467,640 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Colorado1 in —
  4. 4Minnesota1 in —
  5. 5Ohio1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 in —
  7. 7Washington1 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. Liesel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Liesel around the world

Where Liesel 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.

  • England & Wales
    2006–2022
    #5,670
    in 2022
  • France
    1942–2025
    #6,662
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2016–2018
    #3,384
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    1973–2007
    #803
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Liesel by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,829
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,072
Best rank ever
#2,796
2015
Peak year
2015
63 that year
First recorded
1954
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,241
Count in 2025
28

Names similar to Liesel

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

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Sibling names for Liesel

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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