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Lisette

#4,711 in 2025Girls' name

Diminutive of Élisabeth

Lisette has been given to 9,581 babies in the U.S. since 1882. In 2025 it ranked #4,711 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1999, with 395 recorded.

Babies named Lisette, 2025

1 in 114,000

Lisette over time, 1880–2025

Girls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lisette: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Élisabeth

French

What Lisette means

Lisette is a diminutive of Élisabeth.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Lisette → Élisabeth → Élisabeth → Elisabeth. The family’s meaning is “my God is an oath”, recorded in Latin with the source elements Elisheva.

Origin, language, and formation

Lisette is used in English and French. Its origins include French.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Élisabeth and Elisabeth.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Lisette is pronounced /li.zɛt/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 9,581 girls were recorded with the name Lisette between 1882 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 395 in 1999; its best national rank was #616 in 1999.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,953 in 2020 to #4,711 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,074 in 2015 to #4,711 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 Lisette?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 114,000
29 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 55,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,711
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
79,239 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lisette 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 79,239 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lisette. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lisettes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lisette was born before 1989 — so the typical Lisette is around 36 today.

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
23.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
23.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
9,437
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 23.0% of all recorded uses (2,199).

Is Lisette 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
−91
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+242
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,637
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.53×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
7.3%
Peak was 1999 (395)
Years since peak
26
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#616
1999

Spellings of Lisette

Lisette is not the most common spelling — Lynette is, with 36.3% against Lisette's 8.0%.

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 Lisette is used

Across 1910–2025, Lisette was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 6,250 girls, against 1 in 14,697 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

016 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 6,250
  2. 2New York1 in 7,692
  3. 3New Jersey1 in 8,333
  4. 4Arizona1 in 9,091
  5. 5Florida1 in 9,091
  6. 6Illinois1 in 10,000
  7. 7Texas1 in 16,667
  8. 8Connecticut1 in 50,000

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. Lisette has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lisette around the world

Where Lisette 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
    1997–2021
    #3,961
    in 2021
  • Scotland
    1977–1977
    #510
    in 1977
  • France
    1900–2025
    #7,269
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2018
    #3,384
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    1946–2006
    #782
    in 2006

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS 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.

Notable people named Lisette

People whose public names include Lisette, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Lisette in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Lisette. Linked forms have their own page here.

LiseLietteLisethLicetteLisettaLivette

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Lisette by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,711
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 242
Best rank ever
#616
1999
Peak year
1999
395 that year
First recorded
1882
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
9,581
Count in 2025
29

Names similar to Lisette

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

LissetteLisbethDanetteArletteLizetteJosetteNanetteSuzetteBrigitteLinetteIvetteColletteBabetteColetteLissaCosetteVioletteEvetteJanetteLynnetteLisandraBrigetteLissethLisset

Names with a curve like Lisette

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Lisette, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

MonikaCorrinaSalenaBrookAlysiaGriseldaSusannahJacindaMariselaSerinaMarlenaMaricela

Sibling names for Lisette

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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