Fun Facts About the Name Lysle
- 440 babies named Lysle: U.S. records list 440 babies given the name Lysle from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Lysle Mean?
Lysle is a spelling of the surname-derived name usually written Lisle or Lyle. Its meaning is "of the island" or "the island." The element behind it is Old French isle, "island," which comes from Latin insula. In medieval family names, the French article was often fused to the place word, so de l'isle identified someone who lived on an island or who came from a place called Lille or L'Isle in France. The literal sense is topographical - an island, or a settlement on one - and the customary use as a personal name keeps only that general idea.
Lysle Name History & Origins
The name goes back to a Norman French surname brought to Britain after the Conquest. By the later Middle Ages it is found in England and Scotland in forms such as Lisle, de Lisle, and Lyle, used both by families who held land and by ordinary people named for an island or a French hometown. From the 1700s onward, English-speaking families began giving surnames as first names, and this one was among them.
The spelling Lysle is a later variant, with the y substituted for the i in the same way that many English names were respelled. It appears as both a surname and, more recently, a given name, and it is found chiefly in the United States. Its own history is simply that of a respelled Lisle; it does not descend from a separate word or language.
How Popular is the Name Lysle?
Lysle has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 1920. Its best rank was #1,154 in 1901.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | #7,685 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1963 | #3,879 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1961 | #3,549 | 7 | 0.0003% |
| 1959 | #2,966 | 9 | 0.0004% |
| 1958 | #3,782 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1957 | #4,331 | 5 | 0.0002% |
| 1956 | #3,786 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1954 | #4,158 | 5 | 0.0002% |
| 1953 | #3,303 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1952 | #2,807 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 1951 | #3,583 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1950 | #2,936 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 1949 | #3,558 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1948 | #3,991 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1947 | #2,456 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 1945 | #3,597 | 5 | 0.0004% |
| 1944 | #3,020 | 7 | 0.0005% |
| 1943 | #2,136 | 13 | 0.0009% |
| 1942 | #2,850 | 8 | 0.0006% |
| 1941 | #3,361 | 6 | 0.0005% |
| 1940 | #3,333 | 6 | 0.0005% |
| 1938 | #3,394 | 6 | 0.0005% |
| 1936 | #3,395 | 6 | 0.0006% |
| 1935 | #2,482 | 10 | 0.0010% |
| 1934 | #3,175 | 7 | 0.0007% |
| 1933 | #2,897 | 8 | 0.0008% |
| 1932 | #3,005 | 8 | 0.0008% |
| 1931 | #2,167 | 13 | 0.0013% |
| 1930 | #3,477 | 7 | 0.0006% |
| 1929 | #3,804 | 6 | 0.0006% |
| 1928 | #3,578 | 7 | 0.0006% |
| 1927 | #2,368 | 13 | 0.0012% |
| 1926 | #2,666 | 11 | 0.0010% |
| 1925 | #2,690 | 11 | 0.0010% |
| 1924 | #2,098 | 16 | 0.0014% |
| 1923 | #1,915 | 18 | 0.0016% |
| 1922 | #2,427 | 13 | 0.0012% |
| 1921 | #2,733 | 11 | 0.0010% |
| 1920 | #1,796 | 20 | 0.0019% |
| 1919 | #1,936 | 17 | 0.0017% |
| 1918 | #3,274 | 8 | 0.0008% |
| 1917 | #2,653 | 10 | 0.0011% |
| 1916 | #1,907 | 16 | 0.0018% |
| 1915 | #2,744 | 9 | 0.0011% |
| 1914 | #2,813 | 7 | 0.0011% |
| 1913 | #1,638 | 12 | 0.0023% |
| 1912 | #1,987 | 8 | 0.0019% |
| 1911 | #1,905 | 5 | 0.0022% |
| 1907 | #1,285 | 6 | 0.0041% |
| 1901 | #1,154 | 5 | 0.0047% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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How the Name Lysle Shapes Your Personality and Life?
You always bring to completion anything you start. You are generous but like to see returns from your giving. You have an executive ability, you are a leader. You are moral, balanced, honest and intellectual, and you may attain spirituality. You are wise and practical with an appreciation of beauty. You always think before you act. You are inventive, intuitive and extremely methodical. Since your will is so strong, you are hard to convince. You also dislike advice. You love beauty and philosophy, and you desire achievement. You have a strong need for freedom - physical, mental and spiritual.
You are always looking for a chance to do your own thing, to be your own person, and to have things done your own way.
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