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Lissandro vs Lissette

American parents have registered 7,501 Lissettes since 1880, against 218 Lissandros. Lissette is still ahead, with 19 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Lissandro against Lissette, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Lissandro Lissette

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Lissette has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1956 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2022, when Lissandro had 11 and Lissette had 12.

Side by side

  Lissandro Lissette
Total US births 2187,501
Most in one year 22254
Babies in 2025 1319
Estimated living today 2207,200
Median age today 1037
Peak year 20101989
Best rank 4,366th boys766th girls
Rank in 2025 6,446th6,116th
First recorded 20021956
Girls / boys 0 / 2187,496 / 5

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Lissettes alive today are over 37; half the Lissandros are over 10. That is 27 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Lissandro and Lissette.