Boyle

At the 2020 census, 38,028 Americans bore the surname Boyle — 905th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 7,860.

By the numbers

People: 38,028
Rank: 905th
How common: 1 in 7,860
Per 100,000: 12.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

As an Irish surname, Anglicised from Irish Ó Baoithghill, possibly a compound of baoth (“vain, foolish”) and geall (“pledge”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Boyle described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 91.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.7%
Black, not Hispanic 1.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Boyle

Robert Boyle (1627–1691)Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor
Susan Boyle (born 1961)British singer
Danny Boyle (born 1956)English filmmaker
Willard Boyle (1924–2011)Canadian physicist and inventor
Lara Flynn Boyle (born 1970)American actress
Peter Boyle (1935–2006)American actor
Katie Boyle (1926–2018)Italian-born British actress, presenter
Dan Boyle (born 1976)Canadian ice hockey player

People named Boyle with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Boyle

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.