Lish
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Lish has been given to 31 babies in the U.S. since 1889. 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 1889, with 6 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 77% boys, 23% girls all-time.
Babies named Lish, 1942
1 in 455,000
Lish over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Lish over time
In 1965, Lish went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Lish?
Lish had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1942, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1942
- 1 in 455,000
- 6 of 2,731,825 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 230,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1942
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 315,594 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Lish sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1942 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 315,594 children born in 1942 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lish. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Lishs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Lish was born before 1893 — so the typical Lish is around 132 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1880s
- 25.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 50.0%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1880s — 25.0% of all recorded uses (6).
Is Lish 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1889 (6)
- Years since peak
- 136
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Lish
Lish is not the most common spelling — Liam is, with 42.9% against Lish'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.
Lish by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Lish
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Lish
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.