Entry № 5907 · German origin

Liesl Liesl — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ LEE-zel /
Gender
Girl
Origin
German
Meaning
"Pledged to God"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Medieval (German)

A name that means "pledged to god".

Liesl is a German and Austrian pet form of Elisabeth, which comes from the Hebrew for God is my oath, or consecrated to God.

Sweet and a little alpine, Liesl is Elisabeth at her most endearing.

Pledged to God — charming and alpine.

The name in its native script.

Liesl
Transliteration
Liesl
Pronunciation
/ ˈliː.zəl /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Liesl stands.

Liesl does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Liesls before her.

Real people
Liesl Karlstadt
German actress.
1892 – 1960
In fiction
Liesl von Trapp
Eldest daughter in The Sound of Music.
1965 film

Names connected to Liesl.

The number behind Liesl.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Liesl reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.