Lisle

Where Lisle comes from

Lisle hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1885
    First appearance
    #936 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1896
    Peak, #778
    9 babies named Lisle — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1899
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1943
    Lisle Wilson born
    actor
  5. 1951
    Lisle Ellis born
    composer
  6. 1976
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Lisle Wilson · actor, 1943–2010
  • Lisle Ellis · composer, born 1951

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.