Lissette
Feminine · “God is my oath”
Lissette is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 7,496 girls against 5 boys since 1880.
Lissette is Elisabeth with the front removed and a French ending put on the back. Lise is the standard French and German clipping; -ette is the French feminine diminutive. The Hebrew name underneath is a declaration about an oath, and it has been in continuous use for two and a half thousand years. Its American peak is 1968.
How old is the name Lissette?
Lissette first appears in US birth records in 1956 — 69 years ago. The typical Lissette alive today was born around 1988, making them about 37 years old. About 7,300 people named Lissette are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Lissette most popular?
Lissette peaked in 1968, reaching #666 nationally. Today it ranks #6116, 5,450 places below that high. See the whole 1968 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Elisheva to Lissette
The story of Lissette
Elisabeth's productivity is remarkable: it has generated more short forms than any other European name. Elizabeth, Eliza, Liza, Lisa, Lise, Lisette, Betty, Beth, Bess, Bessie, Betsy, Elsie, Ilse, Lilibet and Isabel all descend from it, and several of them became independent names centuries ago. Lisette is the French diminutive of Lise and was in use from the seventeenth century. American use of the doubled-s Lissette spelling rose in the 1960s alongside Lisa, which was the single most popular American girls' name of that decade, and it peaked in 1968.
Meaning
God is my oath
Hebrew Elisheva joins el, 'God', to sheva, connected to shava, 'to swear', and to sheva, 'seven' — oaths in the Hebrew Bible are frequently sworn by sevens. So the standard reading is 'God is my oath', with 'God is abundance' offered as an alternative. Elisabeth was the mother of John the Baptist. Lise and Lisette are French clippings, and the -ette ending adds nothing lexical.
How the name formed
- Elisheva
- Elisabeth
- Lise
- Lissette
Related forms: Lisette · Liesel · Liseth · Elizabeth
Pronouncing Lissette
lih-SET
Two syllables, stress at the end, following the French. Some American speakers front-stress it, LISS-et. Both are heard, and the end-stressed version is closer to the source.
Nicknames for Lissette
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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
- 1956
- Most girls named
- 1989254 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #666reached in 1968
- Change vs 2024
- +46.2%19 in 2025, from 13
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.
Lissette in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Lisette in French — spelling variant
- Liesel in German — related form
- Liseth in Spanish — related form
- Elizabeth in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas.
Lissettes among us
people named Lissette are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 84,593 born in 2025 was named Lissette
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Jacquelin test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Lissette's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Jacquelin climbed just as high around 1931, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Jacquelin's path sketches the road Lissette is walking now.
Lissette sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Lissette beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Lissette in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Elizabeth is available as a formal version with two and a half thousand years behind it.
- Lissy and Liss are both usable short forms.
- The meaning is settled and expressible in four words.
- Lisette, Lissette and Lizette all circulate and hers will be written another way.
- Two stress patterns are current in American use.
- Its curve is tightly 1960s, which places a bearer's generation.
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Feminine · #6116 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Lissettes are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 7,300 people named Lissette are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Lissette in 2025?
- Lissette ranks #6116 among US girl names in 2025, with 19 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Lissette?
- About 1 in every 84,593 US girls born in 2025 was named Lissette — 19 in all.
- Will my child share the name Lissette with classmates?
- Lissette will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Lissette
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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