Isil
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Synonym of ISIS
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/isil/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Isil is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- CYCyprus≈1 in 109K(inferred from the name graph)
- ATAustria≈1 in 207K
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 294K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 82 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 109K (inferred from the name graph)
≈250 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Cyprus, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Işil in DE Germany, AT Austria.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Synonym of ISIS.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Isil 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 319K | listed | Işil | 54 |
| TR Türkiye | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 491K | — | Isil | 70 |
| US United States | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 2.3M | listed | Isil | 82 |
| NL Netherlands | 49 | 1 in 353K | 49 | Isil | 12 |
| FR France | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Isil | 50 |
| AT Austria | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 207K | 18 | Işil | 12 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 294K | 10 | Isil | 7 |
| CY Cyprus | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 109K | — | Isil | 4 |
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: the de-munich-vornamen register; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Isil is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Filipino, light touch; nudge
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, ‘silent’
as a wordTrask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 12 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Isil mean, and where does it come from?
- Synonym of ISIS. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Isil?
- A machine transcription gives /isil/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- Is Isil a male or female name?
- Isil is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Isil have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 251 people named Isil in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled işil.
- How common is the name Isil?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 49 people named Isil, about 1 in 353 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Isil?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/isilThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Isil”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.