Meaning and history
From an Irish surname, an anglicized form of Ó Dubhghaill, itself derived from the given name Dubhghall. A notable bearer of the surname was Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930), the author of the Sherlock Holmes mystery stories.
20062006: 32 births, rank #3,306
2007: 29 births, rank #3,591
2008: 27 births, rank #3,823
2009: 21 births, rank #4,582
2010: 20 births, rank #4,678
20112011: 10 births, rank #7,502
2012: 11 births, rank #7,050
2013: 17 births, rank #5,171
2014: 8 births, rank #8,781
2015: 12 births, rank #6,676
20162016: 10 births, rank #7,605
2017: 18 births, rank #5,111
2018: 13 births, rank #6,345
2019: 11 births, rank #7,173
2020: 11 births, rank #7,034
20212021: 14 births, rank #6,032
2022: 8 births, rank #8,990
2023: 9 births, rank #8,255
2024: 11 births, rank #7,257
20252025: 10 births, rank #7,679
Doyle rose from #975 to #966 for boys between 1980 and 1981. Its highest annual birth count came in 1931, with 667 births.