girls:
21 births since 1941
#5695 (0th percentile)
boys:
543 births since 1885
#4043 (12th percentile)
overall:
564 births since 1885
#7175 (7th percentile)
The name Lisle is the #7,175 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 564 recorded births since 1885. This represents the 7.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 7.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,043 (11.8% percentile) for all time with 543 births since 1885. For girls, it ranks #5,695 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 21 births since 1941.
Lisle first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1885 (1885 for boys and 1941 for girls). Birth data for Lisle is available in 60 out of the 95 years between 1885 and 1979 (58 years for boys and 3 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Lisle has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 96.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Lisle reached its peak popularity in 1924, achieving the 2.9% percentile (ranked #538) with 18 births per million. The name was most common in 1896, with 70 births per million (ranked 1.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1979.
For girls, Lisle reached its peak popularity in 1967, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #734) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1967, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1971.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lisle".
These names exclude other spelling variations of Lyle. View all variations of Lyle.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Lisle", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 2 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Lyle" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Lyle..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Lisle. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 69.0% confident that Lisle is pronounced as lail, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LAI-uhl, at 31.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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