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The CARLISLE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 19,718 1663 0.007 73
United States (1880 census) 4,037 1532 0.008 81
Change since 1880 +15681 -131 -0.001 -8
Other Countries
Australia 502 3208 0.003 31
United Kingdom 2,648 2339 0.006 58
Top States for CARLISLE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 1,902 1309 0.009 91
Alabama 1,809 373 0.041 407
California 1,369 2299 0.004 40
Florida 1,331 1521 0.008 83
Georgia 1,033 1032 0.013 126
Top States for CARLISLE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 1,809 373 0.041 407
Mississippi 848 514 0.030 298
Delaware 129 1045 0.016 165
Utah 309 958 0.014 138
Georgia 1,033 1032 0.013 126

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called CARLISLE live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called CARLISLE represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called CARLISLE in Texas than any other state, but you are more likely to find a CARLISLE by picking someone at random in Alabama than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of CARLISLE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the CARLISLE surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the CARLISLE surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of CARLISLE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 312 1.58
White (Hispanic) 225 1.14
Native American/Alaskan 114 0.58
Asian/Pacific 73 0.37
White (Caucasian) 16,165 81.98
Black/African American 2,832 14.36

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the CARLISLE surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of CARLISLE in historical publications

CARLISLE. CARLYLE. The city in Cumberland.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to CARLISLE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CARLISLE.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for CARLISLE

The following words are slight variants of CARLISLE that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.