Disney
surname · Latin script
Meaning: person from de Isigny, Normandy, meaning ‘place associated with Isina’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/dɪzni/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Disney is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 82K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 92K
- IEIreland≈1 in 65K
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
- 290 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 65K (inferred from the name graph)
3,631 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
person from de Isigny, Normandy, meaning ‘place associated with Isina’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Disney, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Disney 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 | 3,631 | 1 in 92K | 3.6K | Disney | 290 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈800 est. | ≈1 in 82K | listed | Disney | 130 |
| CA Canada | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 116K | — | Disney | 42 |
| IT Italy | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 205K | — | Disney | 8 |
| AU Australia | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 90K | — | Disney | 75 |
| IE Ireland | ≈80 est. | ≈1 in 65K | — | Disney | 12 |
| SG Singapore | ≈65 est. | ≈1 in 95K | — | Disney | 6 |
3,631 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Disney is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from Isigny, Calvados; first attested William de Ysini c1150
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, preposition de, from Isigny in Calvados, so called from the Gallo-Roman personal name Isinius (a Latinized form of Gaul. Isina) + the local suffix -dcurn. Denning; Disraeli see Israel
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, A surname from Old French.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Walt. US cartoon pioneer
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Irish, Derived from a French place-name and originally written D’Isigny etc., the name Disney occurs quite frequently in the records of several Irish counties in the south and midlands since the first half of the seventeenth century. MIF
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
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)
- Elias Disneyb. 1859CACanadian entrepreneur, father of Roy Disney and Walt Disney (1859–1941)
- Flora Call Disneyb. 1868USmother of Walt Disney and his brother Roy Disney
- Roy O. Disneyb. 1893USAmerican businessman and producer, co-founder of The Walt Disney Company (1893–1971)
- Lillian Disneyb. 1899USAmerican artist and philanthropist (1899–1997)
- Walt Disneyb. 1901USAmerican animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company (1901–1966)
- Roy E. Disneyb. 1930USlongtime senior executive for The Walt Disney Company (1930-2009)
- Diane Disney Millerb. 1933USdaughter of Walt Disney and Lillian Disney
- Abigail Disneyb. 1960USAmerican film producer
- Melissa Disneyb. 1970USAmerican voice actress
- Tim Disneyproducer, screen writer and director
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 39 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 269 | #26,192 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 88 | #26,192 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1993 | 5 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2018 | — | — |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Disney mean, and where does it come from?
- person from de Isigny, Normandy, meaning ‘place associated with Isina’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Disney?
- A machine transcription gives /dɪzni/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Disney have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.6 thousand people named Disney, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled disney.
- How common is the name Disney?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,631 people named Disney in 2010, about 1 in 92 thousand residents.
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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, “Disney”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.