English (mainly Somerset and Gloucestershire): topographic name
from Anglo-Norman French isle ‘island’ (Latin insula) or
a habitational name from a place in England or northern France named
with this element.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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