Carlisle

At the 2020 census, 19,643 Americans bore the surname Carlisle — 1,784th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 15,200.

By the numbers

People: 19,643
Rank: 1,784th
How common: 1 in 15,200
Per 100,000: 6.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Middle English Carlele, from Middle English Carleol, Carleul, from xcb (compare Caer Ligualid in the Historia Brittonum, Middle Welsh Caer Liwelydd, Welsh Caerliwelydd, all suffixed with -ydd), composed of cel-bry-pro *kaɨr (“fort”) + cel-bry-pro (> Latin Luguvalium), from Proto-Celtic *Luguwalos.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Carlisle described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 77.1%
Black, not Hispanic 14.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino 2.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Carlisle

Belinda Carlisle (born 1958)American singer
Mary Carlisle (1914–2018)American actress
Kitty Carlisle (1910–2007)American stage and screen actress, singer, and spokesperson for the arts
Rick Carlisle (born 1959)American basketball player and coach
James Carlisle (born 1937)Dentist, former Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda
Anthony Carlisle (1768–1840)British surgeon
John G. Carlisle (1834–1910)American politician
Clarke Carlisle (born 1979)English association football player

People named Carlisle with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Carlisle

Also a first name

Carlisle has been given to 2,329 American babies as a first name since 1888, peaking in 2012. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.