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The MOYLE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,057 13547 0.001 8
United States (1880 census) 444 10646 0.001 9
Change since 1880 +1613 -2901 0 -1
Other Countries
Australia 1,553 1054 0.01 95
United Kingdom 1,434 3909 0.003 31
Top States for MOYLE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 218 11920 0.001 6
Michigan 184 6880 0.002 19
Pennsylvania 173 8898 0.001 14
Iowa 114 3822 0.004 39
New Jersey 105 9550 0.001 12
Top States for MOYLE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Nevada 104 2318 0.005 52
Idaho 57 3343 0.004 44
Iowa 114 3822 0.004 39
Utah 81 3481 0.004 36
Colorado 92 6121 0.002 21

Notes

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

Classification and Origin of MOYLE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: Anglo-Saxon

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the MOYLE 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 MOYLE 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 MOYLE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 38 1.85
White (Hispanic) 32 1.56
Black/African American 29 1.41
Native American/Alaskan 26 1.26
Asian/Pacific 8 0.39
White (Caucasian) 1,924 93.53

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

Meaning of MOYLE in historical publications

MOYLE. Not from mule, as the family apiear to have imagined when they assumed for arms, ' Gules, a movie or mule passant Argent ;' but from a jjlace in or contiguous to the parish of St. Minvor, co. Cornwall. D. Gilbert's Cornwall, ii. 67.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to MOYLE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MOYLE.

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for MOYLE

The following words are slight variants of MOYLE that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.