Lister

7,985 people in the United States were counted with the surname Lister in the 2020 census, making it the 4,299th most common in the country. That is about one person in 37,400.

By the numbers

People: 7,985
Rank: 4,299th
How common: 1 in 37,400
Per 100,000: 2.7

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

English occupational surname from the archaic noun litster (“dyer”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 75.1%
Black, not Hispanic 14.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 4.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Lister

Joseph Lister (1827–1912)British surgeon and antiseptic pioneer
Tommy Lister Jr. (1958–2020)American actor and wrestler
Anne Lister (1791–1840)English landowner and lesbian diarist
Enrique Líster (1907–1994)Spanish general
Moira Lister (1923–2007)actress
Zoe Lister-Jones (born 1982)American actress, screenwriter and director
Cornelia Lister (born 1994)Swedish tennis player
Martin Lister (1639–1712)English naturalist and physician

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

Surnames like Lister

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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.