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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

'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.

Meaning of DOYLE in historical publications

DOYLE. One of the commonest of Irish surnames, and presumed to be of Anglo-Norman origin. See D'Oyley. It is found as Doyl and Doil in England, temp. Edward I. H.R.

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 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.

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

Potential typos for DOYLE

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