Delisle

surname · Latin script

Meaning: a surname, Delisle, transferred from the common noun (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: Grenada, 2025

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Delisle is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 4,041 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.

  • CACanada≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
  • IEIreland≈1 in 28Kfew records
  • GDGrenada1 in 28K

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)

4,041 people, 2010

Record sources
295 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)

Canada, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

a surname, Delisle, transferred from the common noun

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where the surname Delisle is found

(measured from records)

Delisle 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 Delisle is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—4,0411 in 82K4KDelisle295
CA Canada—≈3,800 est.≈1 in 11K—Delisle161
FR France—≈2,200 est.≈1 in 31K234—3
GB United Kingdom—≈1,200 est.≈1 in 58K—Delisle55
KP North Korea#848≈360 est.≈1 in 73K—Delisle2
IE Ireland—≈190 est.≈1 in 28K—Delisle2
CH Switzerland—1471 in 57K147Delisle17
GD Grenada—41 in 28K4—1

4,041 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; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025. 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)

Delisle is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Canada, United States, Switzerland

    Also written Délisle, Dëlislë, Delîsle

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Délisle

49 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.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Delisle is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, De Lisle ou de L’Isle, noms de plusieurs localités à travers la France.

    as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition

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)
16001700180019002000Guillaume Delisle, b. 1675Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, b. 1688Grey DeLisle, b. 1973

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)
FormalDear Delisle,
InformalHello,

Evidence

(measured from records)

20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Delisle mean, and where does it come from?
a surname, Delisle, transferred from the common noun Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Which countries have the most people with the surname Delisle?
In the United States, the national register counted about 4.0 thousand people named Delisle, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled delisle. After it come Canada, France, United Kingdom and North Korea; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Delisle?
In the United States, the national register counted 4,041 people named Delisle in 2010, about 1 in 82 thousand residents.
How common is Delisle compared with other names?
In North Korea, Delisle is the 848th most common surname of 2,439 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Delisle” — ranked 7899th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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