Lyle

Lyle is the 2,836th most common surname in the United States, shared by 12,364 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 24,200.

By the numbers

People: 12,364
Rank: 2,836th
How common: 1 in 24,200
Per 100,000: 4.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Old French

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 79.5%
Black, not Hispanic 11.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Lyle

Sandy Lyle (born 1958)Scottish golfer
Lauren Lyle (born 1993)British actress
Hilliard Lyle (1879–1931)Canadian lacrosse player
Ron Lyle (1941–2011)American boxer
Adrienne Lyle (born 1985)American equestrian

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

Surnames like Lyle

Lyles

Also a first name

Lyle has been given to 60,203 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1922. 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.