Hoyle

Hoyle is the 3,949th most common surname in the United States, shared by 8,727 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 34,200.

By the numbers

People: 8,727
Rank: 3,949th
How common: 1 in 34,200
Per 100,000: 2.9

Where the name comes from

From Old English.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 77.8%
Black, not Hispanic 13.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Hoyle

Fred Hoyle (1915–2001)British astronomer
Lindsay Hoyle (born 1957)Speaker of the House of Commons
Edmond Hoyle (1672–1769)British writer and whist authority
Katie Hoyle (born 1988)New Zealand footballer

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

Surnames like Hoyle

Also a first name

Hoyle has been given to 1,003 American babies as a first name since 1907, peaking in 1925. 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.