Carlyle
About 4,071 American babies have been named Carlyle since 1892, most of them around 1918. In 2025 it ranked 4,857th. About 1,700 Carlyles are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 43.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Carlyle boys named Carlyle
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 4,071
- Estimated living today
- 1,700
- Median age today
- 43
- Peak year
- 1918
- Best rank
- 564th
- Rank in 2025
- 4,857th
- First recorded
- 1892
- Girls / boys
- 215 / 3,856
How old the living Carlyles are
born that year still alive today
Of the 4,071 babies given the name since 1892, about 1,700 are alive — 41 in every hundred. Roughly 390 of them are children and 520 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1982 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Carlyles
- Carlyle Glean (1932–2021)Grenadian politician
- Carlyle Blackwell (1884–1955)American silent film actor, director, and producer
- Carlyle Tapsell (1909–1975)field hockey player
- Carlyle Smith Beals (1899–1979)Canadian astronomer
People named Carlyle with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Carlyle is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Carlyle is most concentrated in Iowa (4.2×), Virginia (4.2×), North Carolina (4.1×), Minnesota (3.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1918
The most popular boys’ names the year Carlyle peaked:
Carlyle elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Carlyle | 6 | 4,678th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Carlyle against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.