The history of your name

The LIS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,321 12288 0.001 9
United States (1880 census) 26 67112 0 1
Change since 1880 +2295 +54824 +N/A +8
Other Countries
Australia 57 22981 0 3
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for LIS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 374 5075 0.002 20
Illinois 302 4232 0.002 24
Pennsylvania 264 5673 0.002 21
California 140 16896 0.000 4
Michigan 133 9271 0.001 13
Top States for LIS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Connecticut 116 3893 0.003 34
Illinois 302 4232 0.002 24
Delaware 18 7289 0.002 23
Pennsylvania 264 5673 0.002 21
Massachusetts 132 6123 0.002 21

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

Classification and Origin of LIS

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the LIS surname.

Ethnic distribution of LIS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 39 1.68
Asian/Pacific 35 1.51
Mixed Race 30 1.29
White (Caucasian) 2,193 94.49
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

LIS is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of LIS in historical publications

SAINT LIS. The originator of this family in England was Simon de St. Lis, a participator in the Norman Conquest. William is said to have offered him in marriage to his niece Judith, widow of Waltheof, a great Saxon earl, whom he had deposed and beheaded. The ladj' refused him ' because he halted in one leg,' and so he courted and won her elder daughter Maud ! He was afterwards raised to the Earldoms of Huntingdon and Northampton. See the whole story in Dugdale's Baronage. The ordinary corruption of the name is Senlis or Seulez.

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 LIS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LIS.

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 LIS

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