The DOYLE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	73,518	391	0.027	272
United States (1880 census)	24,435	210	0.049	489
Change since 1880	+49083	-181	-0.022	-217
Other Countries
Australia	7,717	162	0.047	472
United Kingdom	21,839	250	0.048	475

Top States for DOYLE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	5,520	549	0.016	163
New York	5,443	254	0.029	287
Massachusetts	4,731	94	0.075	745
Florida	4,466	384	0.028	279
Pennsylvania	4,348	226	0.035	354
Top States for DOYLE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	4,731	94	0.075	745
New Hampshire	756	165	0.061	612
Maine	691	303	0.054	542
Rhode Island	460	197	0.044	439
Connecticut	1,417	171	0.042	416

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called DOYLE live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called DOYLE represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called DOYLE in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a DOYLE by picking someone at random in Massachusetts than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of DOYLE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the DOYLE surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the DOYLE surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of DOYLE in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	963	1.31
Native American/Alaskan	390	0.53
Asian/Pacific	338	0.46
White (Caucasian)	66,710	90.74
Black/African American	3,948	5.37
White (Hispanic)	1,176	1.6

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the DOYLE surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to DOYLE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DOYLE.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.