Lissett
Feminine · “A spelling of Lisette”
Lissett is a spelling of Lisette, the French pet form of Elisabeth, written with a doubled s and without its final e. Lisette was the favorite name of the most popular French songwriter of the nineteenth century.
How old is the name Lissett?
Lissett first appears in US birth records in 1967 — 58 years ago. The typical Lissett alive today was born around 1990, making them about 35 years old. About 600 people named Lissett are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Lissett most popular?
Lissett peaked in 1977, reaching #3486 nationally. See the whole 1977 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Elisabeth to Lissett
The story of Lissett
Pierre-Jean de Béranger, whose songs were sung in every café and workshop in France in the early nineteenth century, returned again and again to a sweetheart called Lisette, and 'Béranger's Lisette' became a type of the lighthearted Parisian working girl. Lissett, with a doubled s and no final e, is a spelling that belongs to no single language's rules.
Meaning
A spelling of Lisette, a pet form of Elisabeth
Lisette is the French diminutive of Élisabeth, from Hebrew Elisheva, 'God is my oath'.
How the name formed
- Elisabeth
- Lisette
- Lissett
Related forms: Lisette · Lisset
Pronouncing Lissett
lih-SET
Two syllables with the stress on the second.
Nicknames for Lissett
Limited
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1967
- Most girls named
- 199928 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3486reached in 1977
- Change vs 2012
- +40.0%7 in 2014, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Lissett in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Lisette in French — spelling variant
- Lisset in Spanish — spelling variant
Lissetts among us
people named Lissett are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Lissett sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Built on Elizabeth, one of the most familiar names anywhere.
- Short and bright.
- Distinct on paper.
- Lisette, Lissette and Lizette are all likely guesses.
- French speakers would expect the final e.
- Some will read the spelling as a slip.
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- How many Lissetts are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Lissett are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Lissett in 2025?
- Lissett is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Lissett will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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