Entry № 5905 · German origin

Liesel Liesel — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ LEE-zel /
Gender
Girl
Origin
German
Meaning
"Devoted to God (iconic Sound of Music + Book Thief)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (German)

A name that means "devoted to god (iconic sound of music + book thief)".

Liesel is the German diminutive of Elisabeth — from the Hebrew Elīsheva (my God is my oath). Princess Liesel — German heritage naming.

Devoted to God (German).

The name in its native script.

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

Where Liesel stands.

Liesel 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.

Liesels before her.

Real people
Liesel Pritzker Simmons
American Pritzker family philanthropist.
born 1984
In fiction
Liesl von Trapp
Iconic Sound of Music (1965).
1965
Liesel Meminger
Iconic Book Thief protagonist.
2005

Names connected to Liesel.

The number behind Liesel.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Liesel reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.