Given name & surname
Lisi
Lisi is a surname from Italian and Sicilian. It is used in English, Italian, and Sicilian.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1965. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Lisi through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 24
- 0 boys · 24 girls
- Most popular year
- 1965
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2008. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 8 in 1965. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 304 as a first name in 2020; 1,788 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Lisi’s family of names
In Sicilian usage, Lisi has a conventional equivalent in the English form Aloysius. In Sicilian usage, Lisi has a related form in LUICI. In Sicilian usage, Lisi has a related form in LUISI.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Lisi has relatives in 3 languages.
9 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Lisi
- Lisi HarrisonCanadian writerborn 1970
- Lisi MangoldSwiss actress (1950-1986)
- Lisi LeututuAmerican Samoan soccer playerborn 1970
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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