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Lisetta

Girls' name

Pet form of Elisabetta

Lisetta has been given to 15 babies in the U.S. since 1896. 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 1896, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Lisetta, 1964

1 in 777,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lisetta: meaning, origin, and history

Pet form of Elisabetta

Italian

What Lisetta means

Lisetta is a pet form of Elisabetta.

Origin, language, and formation

Lisetta is used in English. Its origins include Italian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Elisabetta.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 15 girls were recorded with the name Lisetta between 1896 and 1964. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1896; its best national rank was #1,728 in 1896.

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 Lisetta?

Lisetta had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1964, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1964
1 in 777,000
5 of 3,887,460 births
Among girls only
1 in 379,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1964
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
538,918 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lisetta 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 1964 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 538,918 children born in 1964 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lisetta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lisettas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lisetta was born before 1919 — so the typical Lisetta is around 106 today.

Median birth year
1919
About 106 years old
Biggest decade
1890s
33.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
33.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
5
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1890s — 33.3% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Lisetta 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 1896 (5)
Years since peak
129
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#1,728
1896

Spellings of Lisetta

Lisetta is not the most common spelling — Loretta is, with 69.2% against Lisetta'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.

Lisetta around the world

Where Lisetta 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
    1962–1964
    #653
    in 1964

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

Lisetta 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
#1,728
1896
Peak year
1896
5 that year
First recorded
1896
Last recorded
1964
All-time count
15
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Lisetta

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

LisbettLismaryLisannaLismarLiselleLisbelLisvethLismariLiserlyLiseliLissbethLisbonLissbetLisairaCosettaLisajoLisannLismarieLisbedRosittaZenettaMyrettaDonittaDovetta

Sibling names for Lisetta

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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