Liesl
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Liesl is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In German, recorded as a diminutive of the female given name Elisabeth.
- USUnited States1 in 179K(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 188K
- NLNetherlands1 in 402K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 69 (measured from records)
- 1 in 179K (inferred from the name graph)
1,857 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a diminutive of the female given name Elisabeth
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
How Liesl is read(measured from records)
Liesl is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English75%
form of Elizabeth; consecrated to God
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- German7.0%
a diminutive of the female given name Elisabeth
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Liesl counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,857 | 1 in 179K | 1.9K | Liesl | 69 |
| NL Netherlands | 43 | 1 in 402K | 43 | Liesl | 4 |
| SE Sweden | 19 | 1 in 537K | 19 | — | 3 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 10M | — | Liesl | 16 |
| GY Guyana | 4 | 1 in 188K | 4 | — | — |
1,857 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Liesl Karlstadtb. 1892DEGerman actress (1892-1960)
- Liesl Herbstb. 1903CZEnglish tennis player (1902-1990)
- Liesl Teschb. 1969AUAustralian politician, wheelchair basketball player and sailor
- Liesl Ahlersb. 1991ZASouth African actress
- Liesl Laurieb. 1991ZASouth African model
- Liesl TommyZASouth Africa-born American theater and film director, and actress
- Liesl JobsonZASouth African poet
- Liesl JansonZASouth African spongiologist
- Liesl FischerSlalom canoeist
- Liesl FolksAUAustralian-American engineer
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 29 sources across 18 countries.
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Liesl mean, and where does it come from?
- a diminutive of the female given name Elisabeth Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Liesl?
- In the etymology graph, Elizabeth, Lisa and Isabel are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Elisabeth.
- Is Liesl a male or female name?
- Liesl 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.
- In which country does Liesl have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.9 thousand people named Liesl, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled liesl.
- Where is Liesl most common?
- Liesl is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 179 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Liesl?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,857 people named Liesl in 2020, about 1 in 179 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lieslThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Liesl”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.