Origin and popularity of the name ISL

Origin

Delisle : 1: French: topographic name with fused preposition de and definite article l' ‘from the’ for someone who lived on an island Old French isle (from Latin insula) or a habitational name for someone from L'Isle or Lisle names of several places in various parts of France named with this word. Compare Delille.2: English (of Norman origin): variant of Lisle (see Lyle).

Lisle : 1: English (Northumberland Durham and Yorkshire): variant of Lyle and a cognate of 2 below.2: French: habitational name from L'Isle or Lisle names of several places in various parts of France named with Old French isle ‘island’ (from Latin insula). Compare Delisle.

Lyle : 1: Scottish and English (of Norman origin): topographic or habitational name from Anglo-Norman French del isle ‘from the island’ (from Latin de insula) denoting someone who lived on an island or who came from a place in France named Ile Isle or L'Isle. The surname may also in some cases be from Lille (Nord). Compare Lisle and Iles.2: Scottish: variant of Lyall.

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Last name frequency

Geographic distribution of the 64 individuals with the name ISL on Geneanet.

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