The KYLE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	17,750	1861	0.007	66
United States (1880 census)	5,382	1126	0.011	108
Change since 1880	+12368	-735	-0.004	-42
Other Countries
Australia	687	2345	0.004	42
United Kingdom	3,720	1677	0.008	81

Top States for KYLE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	1,768	1453	0.008	85
California	1,361	2417	0.004	40
Tennessee	1,056	856	0.019	186
Florida	1,003	2131	0.006	63
Pennsylvania	925	1664	0.008	75
Top States for KYLE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
West Virginia	348	834	0.019	192
Tennessee	1,056	856	0.019	186
Mississippi	414	1112	0.015	146
Alabama	548	1380	0.012	123
Arkansas	295	1264	0.011	110

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

Classification and Origin of KYLE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	334	1.88
White (Hispanic)	300	1.69
Asian/Pacific	96	0.54
Native American/Alaskan	92	0.52
White (Caucasian)	14,551	81.98
Black/African American	2,377	13.39

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

Similar names to KYLE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KYLE.

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.