Lyle
Lyle reached its high-water mark in 1922 at number 146, and has been recorded 60,203 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 1,046th. About 26,000 Lyles are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 62.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Lyle boys named Lyle
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 60,203
- Estimated living today
- 26,000
- Median age today
- 62
- Peak year
- 1922
- Best rank
- 146th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,046th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 1,013 / 59,190
How old the living Lyles are
born that year still alive today
Of the 60,203 babies given the name since 1880, about 26,000 are alive — 43 in every hundred. Roughly 3,200 of them are children and 12,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1963 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Lyles
- Lyle Foster (born 2000)South African association football player
- Lyle Lovett (born 1957)American musician
- Lyle Mays (1953–2020)American jazz musician
- Lyle Campbell (born 1942)American Mesoamericanist
- Lyle Waggoner (1935–2020)American actor
- Lyle Talbot (1902–1996)American actor
- Lyle Taylor (born 1990)Montserrat footballer
- Lyle Bettger (1915–2003)American actor
People named Lyle with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Lyle is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Lyle is most concentrated in South Dakota (10.6×), North Dakota (9.5×), Nebraska (6.4×), Iowa (5.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1922
The most popular boys’ names the year Lyle peaked:
Lyle elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scotland boys | Lyle | 1,081 | 105th |
| England and Wales boys | Lyle | 627 | 695th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Lyle | 15 | 326th |
| France boys | Lyle | 10 | 6,618th |
| Belgium boys | Lyle | 5 | 1,350th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Lyle against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.