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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Lish

Recorded for both sexesGreatest Generation

2025 rank

—

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

24

peak year 1889

More common than

39%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1889
6 births
Best rank
#938
in 1889
First recorded
1889
#938 that year
Last recorded
1942
no later published record
Average birth year
1912
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
4 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 18896#938Peak
  2. 18936#981
  3. 19256#4,001
  4. 19426#3,425

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #938 in 1889 · peak births 6 in 1889

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 77% boys■ 23% girls

24 boys · 7 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Lish has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.