Lisker

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Lisker is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: habitational name from Lisko in Poland or Liski, now in Belarus.

rarermore common
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 1.7M(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 1.9M
  • PLPoland1 in 6.4M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

176 people, 2010

Sources
19 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.7M (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

habitational name from Lisko in Poland or Liski, now in Belarus.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Lisker 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.

Where Lisker is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1761 in 1.9M259Lisker19
PL Poland61 in 6.4M4——
CH Switzerland51 in 1.7M5——
MX Mexico———Lisker13
CO Colombia———Lisker13

176 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Lisker is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, United States, Türkiye

    Also written Лискер

29 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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 11 sources across 4 countries.

Reference works 3

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 Lisker mean, and where does it come from?
habitational name from Lisko in Poland or Liski, now in Belarus. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
In which country does Lisker have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 176 people named Lisker, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lisker.
Where is Lisker most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lisker is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 1.7 million people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Lisker?
In the United States, the national register counted 176 people named Lisker in 2010, about 1 in 1.9 million 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, “Lisker”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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