Doyle

71,863 people in the United States were counted with the surname Doyle in the 2020 census, making it the 447th most common in the country. That is about one person in 4,159.

By the numbers

People: 71,863
Rank: 447th
How common: 1 in 4,159
Per 100,000: 24.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

From Irish Ó Dubhghaill (“descendant of Dougal”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 86.2%
Black, not Hispanic 5.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)British writer and physician
Kevin Doyle (born 1983)Irish footballer
Roddy Doyle (born 1958)Irish author
Patrick Doyle (born 1953)Scottish film composer
Brian Doyle-Murray (born 1945)American actor
Christopher Doyle (born 1952)Australian-Hong Kong cinematographer and film director
Maria Doyle Kennedy (born 1964)Irish singer
Jim Doyle (born 1945)44th Governor of Wisconsin

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

Also a first name

Doyle has been given to 30,652 American babies as a first name since 1889, peaking in 1931. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

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.