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Liss

Girls' name

Diminutive of Ealisaid

Liss has been given to 12 babies in the U.S. since 2016. 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 2016, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Liss, 2023

1 in 552,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Liss: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Ealisaid

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Liss means

Liss is a diminutive of Ealisaid.

Origin, language, and formation

Liss is used in Faroese and Manx.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ealisaid.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 12 girls were recorded with the name Liss between 2016 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2016; its best national rank was #14,448 in 2023.

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 Liss?

Liss had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 552,000
6 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 267,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
382,940 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Liss 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 2023 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 382,940 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Liss. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lisss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Liss was born before 2016 — so the typical Liss is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
50.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
12
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Liss 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2016 (6)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#14,448
2023

Spellings of Liss

Liss is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 48.1% against Liss'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.

Liss around the world

Where Liss 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.

  • Norway
    1880–1995
    #606
    in 1995

Popularity data from Statistics Norway. SSB data under CC BY 4.0.

Liss 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
—
Best rank ever
#14,448
2023
Peak year
2016
6 that year
First recorded
2016
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
12
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Liss

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

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Sibling names for Liss

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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