Lisle

loc · Latin script

Meaning: person who lives on an island, or person from Lille, France

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Lisle is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States
  • CHSwitzerland
  • CACanada

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
269 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

Locally spelled L'Isle in CH Switzerland.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

person who lives on an island, or person from Lille, France

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Where in the world(measured from records)

Lisle counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Lisle is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—1.8KLisle269
CA Canada——Lisle53
GB United Kingdom—listedLisle128
CH Switzerland——L'Isle4
RU Russia——Lisle5
BR Brazil—145——

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; Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Lisle is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Portugal, France

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written L'Isle, Lísle

  • French name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Canada

    Also written L'Isle, L’isle, Lislè, Lísle

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Lísle, L'Isle

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Lïsle

54 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)

Lisle 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 French del isle ‘dweller in the isle’; first attested Hunfridus de Insula 1086 DB (W)

    as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames

  • In English, who lived on an island, OF, ME isle (L insula), with fused def. art. 2. habitation name for someone from the Fr. town of

    as a nameA dictionary of surnames

  • In English, A type of strong cotton thread, or a cloth woven from such thread.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, village, IL; pers. name

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In English, city, France

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

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)

1700180019002000William Lisle Bowles, b. 1762Joseph-Léonard Decazes, b. 1783Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle, b. 1818Edwin de Lisle, b. 1852Lyle Talbot, b. 1902George Lisle Clutton, b. 1909Lisle Wilson, b. 1943Stephen L. Carter, b. 1954Holly Lisle, b. 1960Lisle Wilkerson, b. 1979

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 29 sources across 17 countries.

Official registers attesting Lisle
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.8K#16,031
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.7K#15,570
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.7K#16,640
GB United KingdomA Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988)———
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • 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 Lisle mean, and where does it come from?
person who lives on an island, or person from Lille, France Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
In which country does Lisle have the most bearers?
Lisle is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled lisle.

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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, “Lisle”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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