Cuisle
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- KWISH-leh
- Origin
- Irish
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,101 for girls
- Style
- Big in Northern Ireland
Cuisle is a girls' name of Irish origin, meaning “pulse, heartbeat”. In 2025 it ranked 3,101st for girls in the UK (8 babies).
What does Cuisle mean?
Irish: Irish word
“pulse, heartbeat”
From the Irish endearment a chuisle mo chroi, 'pulse of my heart'.
Is Cuisle a girl's or a boy's name?
Cuisle is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Cuisle in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,101st among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8 about 1 in 35,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 300% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 8 girls in the UK were named Cuisle, making it the 3,101st most popular name for girls.
2025 had the most girls named Cuisle of any year since it first appeared, in 2013.
Among girls in 2025, it was 205th in Northern Ireland.
Cuisle in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #3,101 |
| 2024 | 3 | #5,966 |
| 2023 | 5 | #4,251 |
| 2022 | 5 | #4,168 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 4 | #4,904 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 4 | #4,967 |
| 2016 | 3 | #6,009 |
| 2015 | 4 | #4,951 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 3 | #6,003 |
Names like Cuisle
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Maeve, Aoife, Fiadh, Eden, Orla, Caoimhe, Clodagh, Daphne, Clara, Eire, Quinn, Cora
More Irish names
Oscar, Rowan, Rory, Finn, Aiden, Ryan, Nolan, Cody, Erin, Ronan, Connor, Declan, Casey, Kennedy, Callan, Lennon
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Cuisle: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/cuisle, updated 20 October 2026.