Liste
surname · Latin script
Meaning: inflection of listar:
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/liste/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Liste is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 40K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 42K
- FIFinland1 in 147K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 75 (measured from records)
- 1 in 40K (inferred from the name graph)
1,193 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)inflection of listar:
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Liste counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | 1,193 | 1 in 42K | 1.2K | Liste | 75 |
| AR Argentina | 253 | 1 in 180K | 253 | Liste | 31 |
| US United States | ≈86 est. | ≈1 in 3.9M | listed | Liste | 38 |
| UY Uruguay | 84 | 1 in 40K | 84 | Liste | 6 |
| BR Brazil | 70 | 1 in 3M | 70 | Liste | 25 |
| FI Finland | 38 | 1 in 147K | 38 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 29 | 1 in 290K | 29 | Liste | 12 |
1,193 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Liste is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In enm, alternative form of light
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Slovak, locative singular of list
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Czech, vocative singular of list
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ang, dative singular of list
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Afrikaans, plural of lis
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Anton Listeb. 1772CHGerman composer (1772-1832)
- Jose Liste Naveirab. 1904ESSpanish politician
- Enrique Líster Forjánb. 1907ESnot in their usual nameSpanish general (1907-1994)
- Heinz Listeb. 1923DEGerman farmer
- Marta Landinb. 1973ESnot in their usual nameSpanish journalist and presenter
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.2K | #3,784 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.2K | #3,782 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 253 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 84 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 70 | #82,471 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 38 | #28,893 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 29 | #28,044 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Liste mean, and where does it come from?
- inflection of listar: Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Liste?
- In the etymology graph, List is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Liste?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /liste/; in Portuguese /liʃt/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Liste have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Liste, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled liste.
- Where is Liste most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Liste is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 40 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Liste?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,193 people named Liste, about 1 in 42 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Liste?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/listeThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Liste”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.