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The CARLYLE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,252 9224 0.001 12
United States (1880 census) 687 7474 0.001 14
Change since 1880 +2565 -1750 0 -2
Other Countries
Australia 259 5938 0.002 16
United Kingdom 1,020 5195 0.002 22
Top States for CARLYLE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 438 2532 0.005 54
Georgia 313 2998 0.004 38
California 275 9637 0.001 8
Missouri 173 4254 0.003 31
Washington 154 4815 0.003 26
Top States for CARLYLE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 438 2532 0.005 54
Georgia 313 2998 0.004 38
Montana 28 4974 0.003 31
Missouri 173 4254 0.003 31
Washington 154 4815 0.003 26

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

Classification and Origin of CARLYLE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 411 12.64
Mixed Race 54 1.66
Native American/Alaskan 51 1.57
White (Hispanic) 42 1.29
Asian/Pacific 15 0.46
White (Caucasian) 2,679 82.38

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

Meaning of CARLYLE in historical publications

CARLISLE. CARLYLE. The city in Cumberland.

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 CARLYLE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CARLYLE.

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 CARLYLE

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