Kyle

At the 2020 census, 16,906 Americans bore the surname Kyle — 2,081st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 17,700.

By the numbers

People: 16,906
Rank: 2,081st
How common: 1 in 17,700
Per 100,000: 5.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Scottish Gaelic

From several places in Scotland and Northern Ireland, derived from Gaelic caol (“narrows”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 76.9%
Black, not Hispanic 13.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Kyle

Chris Kyle (1974–2013)American war veteran and author
Kaylyn Kyle (born 1988)Canadian soccer player and broadcaster
Sissela Kyle (born 1957)Swedish comedian and actress
Kyle (born 1993)American rapper and singer
Peter Kyle (born 1970)British politician
Kevin Kyle (born 1981)Scottish footballer

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

Surnames like Kyle

Kyles

Also a first name

Kyle has been given to 494,713 American babies as a first name since 1881, peaking in 1990. 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.