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Lister Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a dyer, Middle English
litster, an agent derivative (originally feminine; compare
Baxter) of lit(t)e(n) ‘to dye’ (Old Norse lita).
This term was used principally in East Anglia and northern and eastern
England (areas of Scandinavian settlement), and to this day the
surname is found principally in these regions, especially in
Yorkshire.Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an
Fhleisdeir ‘son of the arrow maker’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Lister Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Lister families
 44 - 85  15 - 43 |
 1 - 14  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Lister families
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2,044 - 4,086 682 - 2,043 |
1 - 681 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Lister families
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136 - 270 46 - 135 |
1 - 45 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Lister Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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