Lyle

Where Lyle comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Lyle.

  • From a surname
  • 1 syllable
  • Vowel-ended
Lyle through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #745 among boys, with 7 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1918
    Peak, #145
    993 babies named Lyle, its best rank.
  3. 1957
    Lyle Lovett born
    American musician
  4. 1965
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #359.
  5. 2000
    Lyle Foster born
    South African association football player
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes
  • Lyle Foster · South African association football player, born 2000
  • Lyle Lovett · American musician, born 1957
  • Lyle Mays · American jazz musician, 1953–2020
  • Lyle Campbell · American Mesoamericanist, born 1942
  • Lyle Talbot · American actor, 1902–1996

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.