Lisle
Lisle was last recorded in 1979, when 5 babies were given it; 564 Americans have been recorded with it between 1885 and 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lisle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lisle?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #6,649, in 1979; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
21 babies in 1924, the peak
Lisle peaked in 1924, when 21 boys were given it, #1,758 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 5 | #6,649 | 2.9 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,343 | 3.8 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,419 | 2.4 |
| 1958 | 12 | #2,451 | 5.7 |
| 1957 | 9 | #2,933 | 4.2 |
| 1956 | 7 | #3,400 | 3.3 |
| 1955 | 5 | #4,175 | 2.4 |
| 1954 | 5 | #4,147 | 2.5 |
| 1953 | 8 | #3,055 | 4.1 |
| 1952 | 7 | #3,265 | 3.6 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | 6 | #3,575 | 3.2 |
| 1950 | 8 | #2,927 | 4.5 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,182 | 7.3 |
| 1948 | 5 | #3,976 | 2.8 |
| 1947 | 10 | #2,591 | 5.5 |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,100 | 8.0 |
| 1945 | 5 | #3,582 | 3.7 |
| 1944 | 8 | #2,766 | 5.9 |
| 1943 | 12 | #2,239 | 8.4 |
| 1942 | 8 | #2,840 | 5.8 |
| 1941 | 6 | #3,353 | 4.9 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,022 | 6.0 |
| 1939 | 5 | #3,769 | 4.5 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,050 | 6.3 |
| 1937 | 8 | #2,805 | 7.5 |
| 1936 | 10 | #2,389 | 9.6 |
| 1935 | 9 | #2,638 | 8.6 |
| 1934 | 9 | #2,677 | 8.7 |
| 1933 | 10 | #2,463 | 10.1 |
| 1932 | 9 | #2,760 | 8.6 |
| 1931 | 8 | #2,995 | 7.7 |
| 1930 | 12 | #2,388 | 10.9 |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,402 | 11.2 |
| 1928 | 9 | #2,974 | 8.1 |
| 1927 | 13 | #2,362 | 11.5 |
| 1926 | 13 | #2,371 | 11.7 |
| 1925 | 15 | #2,139 | 13.4 |
| 1924 | 21 | #1,758 | 18.5 |
| 1923 | 11 | #2,708 | 10.0 |
| 1922 | 17 | #1,998 | 15.6 |
| 1921 | 14 | #2,323 | 12.7 |
| 1920 | 20 | #1,794 | 18.8 |
| 1919 | 9 | #3,022 | 9.2 |
| 1918 | 16 | #2,038 | 15.8 |
| 1917 | 15 | #2,049 | 16.2 |
| 1916 | 18 | #1,736 | 20.2 |
| 1915 | 11 | #2,388 | 13.0 |
| 1914 | 15 | #1,655 | 22.9 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,079 | 9.8 |
| 1911 | 7 | #1,477 | 31.0 |
| 1909 | 5 | #1,599 | 30.5 |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,071 | 48.9 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,162 | 44.3 |
| 1896 | 9 | #804 | 75.3 |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,183 | 42.6 |
| 1889 | 5 | #1,047 | 45.2 |
| 1886 | 5 | #1,049 | 45.1 |
| 1885 | 5 | #1,028 | 46.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Lisle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 564 Americans recorded as Lisle, 4% are girls and 96% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Lisle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lisle, and how old are they?
An estimated 123 Americans named Lisle and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (22% of everyone recorded); the median is 74 years old and half are between 68 and 80. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 410 people named Lisle (137 women and girls, 273 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 163 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,004 babies since 1880, Lisle is the most given (56% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Lisle
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Lisle and names like it
- Compare Lisle and LysleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sLisle peaked in 1924.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lisle since 1910.
- The top names of 1924The year the most babies were named Lisle.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Lisle alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.