Isle
loc · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Isle is a name, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom. It appears chiefly in English and French, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: river, France.
- PTPortugal1 in 645K◐
- ESSpain1 in 7.4M
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 13M
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- 642K ●
- Sources
- 31 ●
in 5 countries
612 records
Official registry-verified
Meaning & origin●
river, France
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | 22 | 7 rec. | — | — | Isle | 4 |
| PT Portugal | 19 | 1 rec. | — | — | Isle | 1 |
| MX Mexico | 17 | 51 rec. | — | — | Isle | 21 |
| ES Spain | 12 | 4 rec. | — | — | Isle | 3 |
| FR France | 6 | 0 rec. | — | — | Isle | 1 |
| US United States | — | 237 rec. | — | 314 | — | 31 |
| BR Brazil | — | 68 rec. | — | 87 | — | 26 |
| DK Denmark | — | — | — | 4 | — | — |
| DM Dominica | — | — | — | 1 | — | — |
| CA Canada | — | 5 rec. | — | 1 | — | 2 |
| IS Iceland | — | — | — | 1 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | — | — | 1 | — | — |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English157K23%
- French30K4%
- English (Singapore)1591%
- Serbian1481%
- French (Seychelles)1181%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 157,420 | 23% |
| French | 30,273 | 4% |
| English (Singapore) | 159 | 1% |
| Serbian | 148 | 1% |
| French (Seychelles) | 118 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Isle is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, voni ’
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
In English, presumably a variant of Iles.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Turkish, second-person singular imperative of islemek
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, obsolete spelling of île
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In frm, island
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name●
- Thomas Isleb. 1981FRFrench TV host
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 19 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 314 | #63,524 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 310 | #68,391 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 270 | #68,172 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 87 | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 84 | #24,984 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 71 | #45,476 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 64 | #43,770 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 59 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2000 | 28 | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 21 | #48,667 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 4 | #70,764 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 2 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 23 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Isle?
- Our records include 642,392 bearers of Isle across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
- In which country does Isle have the most bearers?
- Isle is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled isle.
- What does the name Isle mean?
- Recorded meaning: river, France
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Isle”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.