Name profile

Lyle

A name meaning "island".

Usage languagesEnglish
US rank (2025)#1,046

Meaning and history

From an English surname derived from Norman French l’isle, meaning “island.”

Popularity over timeUS births · boys
20062006: 104 births, rank #1,467
2007: 86 births, rank #1,728
2008: 78 births, rank #1,861
2009: 86 births, rank #1,762
2010: 101 births, rank #1,565
20112011: 137 births, rank #1,257
2012: 133 births, rank #1,299
2013: 168 births, rank #1,100
2014: 172 births, rank #1,110
2015: 183 births, rank #1,077
20162016: 208 births, rank #980
2017: 205 births, rank #993
2018: 220 births, rank #946
2019: 235 births, rank #927
2020: 207 births, rank #1,010
20212021: 217 births, rank #1,006
2022: 209 births, rank #1,052
2023: 192 births, rank #1,105
2024: 219 births, rank #1,019
20252025: 211 births, rank #1,046

Lyle rose from #947 to #928 for boys between 2018 and 2019. Its highest annual birth count came in 1922, with 1,055 births.