Hoyle
surname · Latin script
Meaning: South Yorkshire dialectal pronunciation of Hole; first attested Henry att Hoyle 1379 PTY
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/hɔjl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hoyle is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- GBUnited Kingdom
- AUAustralia
- USUnited States
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
South Yorkshire dialectal pronunciation of Hole; first attested Henry att Hoyle 1379 PTY
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Hoyle is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Giolla Chomhghaill, a patronymic from a personal name meaning ‘devotee of (Saint) ComhghaV (see McCool). Woulfe, however, traces Hoyle (as well as Macllhoyle and McElhill) to Mac Giolla Choille ‘son of the lad of the wood’, which has sometimes been translated as Woods.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
topographic name for someone who lived by a depression or low-lying spot, from Old English holh ‘hole’, ‘hollow’, ‘depression’ (see Hole).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, var. of Hole reflecting a regional pronunciation. Vars.: Hoile; Hoyles, Hoiles.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In English, northern English variant of Hole.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
In English, card game rules; Fred, English
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Edmond Hoyleb. 1672GBBritish writer and whist authority (1672–1769)
- Fred Hoyleb. 1915GBBritish astronomer (1915–2001)
- Doug Hoyle, Baron Hoyleb. 1930GBBritish politician and peer (1926–2024)
- Trevor Hoyleb. 1940GBBritish science fiction author (1940-)
- Geoffrey Hoyleb. 1942GBEnglish science fiction writer
- Lindsay Hoyleb. 1957GBSpeaker of the House of Commons (born 1957)
- David Hoyleb. 1957GBBritish priest
- Val Hoyleb. 1964USAmerican politician
- Dean Hoyleb. 1967GBEnglish footballer (born 1967)
- Izuka Hoyleb. 1996GBactress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 24 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 9.5K | #3,457 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 9.2K | #3,857 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 8.7K | #3,949 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 40 | #52,532 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 40 | #51,690 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 17 | #28,086 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 10 | #39,793 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 10 | #63,461 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 6 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 6 | #178,033 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 5 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 5 | #101,952 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hoyle mean, and where does it come from?
- South Yorkshire dialectal pronunciation of Hole; first attested Henry att Hoyle 1379 PTY Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Hoyle?
- A machine transcription gives /hɔjl/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Hoyle have the most bearers?
- Hoyle is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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About this data
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Hoyle”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.