Lieselotte

Meaning & origin●(measured from records)

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Often considered alongside

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Lieselotte, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Carlotta
• Hannelore
• Ottilie
• Nicolette
• Hildegard
• Anneliese
• German
• Adelheid
• Germany
• Lotta
• Lottie
• Loretta

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Other names spelled this way◐(inferred from the name graph)

Lieselotte is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate name3 spellings in the group

  Also written Liese-Lotte

36 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●(measured from records)

Lieselotte is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• German: 19th-century coinage composed of the elements LIESE + - lotte , abstracted from KARLOTTE and treated as a feminine diminutive suffix. Pet form: Lilo .

  as a word

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name●(measured from records)

• Lieselotte Blumenthalb. 1906DEGerman germanist and university teacher (1906-1992)
• Lieselotte Wickeb. 1914DEGerman politician (1914-1989)
• Lieselotte Kruglewskyb. 1915DEGerman politician (1915-2009)
• Lieselotte Bergerb. 1920DEGerman politician (1920-1989)
• Lieselotte Holzmeisterb. 1921DEGerman politician (1921-1994)
• Lieselotte Wollnyb. 1926DEGerman politician (1926-2019)
• Lieselotte Schwarzb. 1930DEGerman illustrator (1930-2003)
• Lieselotte Schweikertb. 1937DEGerman politician (1937-2020)
• Liesel Westermannb. 1944DEnot in their usual nameGerman discus thrower
• Lieselotte Prehnb. 1954DEGerman politician

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them○(machine-generated)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence●(measured from records)

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What are other forms of the name Lieselotte?

In the etymology graph, Karl, Elisabeth and Lotte are forms of the same name in other languages.

How do you pronounce Lieselotte?

A machine transcription gives /liːzəlɔtʰə/ (IPA) for German.

Is Lieselotte a male or female name?

Lieselotte is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Lieselotte mean, and where does it come from?

Liese + Lotte, shortened from Elisabeth + Charlotte. Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and Wiktionary and 1 other source.

In which country does Lieselotte have the most bearers?

Mondonomo estimates about 23 thousand people named Lieselotte in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lieselotte.

How common is the name Lieselotte?

In the United States, the national register counted 749 people named Lieselotte in 2020, about 1 in 444 thousand residents.

How common is Lieselotte compared with other names?

In Germany, Lieselotte is the 544th most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.