Lishman
surname · Latin script
Meaning: northern variant of Leachman
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈɫɪʃmən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lishman is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United Kingdom than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 123K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1M
- JMJamaica≈1 in 138K
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 Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 142 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 123K (inferred from the name graph)
≈530 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)northern variant of Leachman.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Lishman 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 123K | — | Lishman | 117 |
| US United States | 323 | 1 in 1M | 356 | Lishman | 142 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 234K | — | Lishman | 30 |
| PH Philippines | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 623K | — | Lishman | 1 |
| TN Tunisia | ≈84 est. | ≈1 in 139K | — | Lishman | 2 |
| AU Australia | ≈66 est. | ≈1 in 385K | — | Lishman | 40 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 138K | — | Lishman | 1 |
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 2000. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Doug Lishmanb. 1923GBEnglish footballer (1923-1994)
- Bill Lishmanb. 1939CACanadian inventor, artist and flying enthusiast
- Joyce Lishmanb. 1947GBsocial work education and research leader
- Gordon Lishmanb. 1947GBBritish activist
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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 356 | #54,269 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 331 | #64,820 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 323 | #62,045 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Lishman mean, and where does it come from?
- northern variant of Leachman. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Lishman?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɫɪʃmən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Lishman have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 534 people named Lishman in the United Kingdom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lishman.
- How common is the name Lishman?
- In the United States, the national register counted 323 people named Lishman in 2010, about 1 in 1.0 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lishmanThe 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, “Lishman”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.