Lylé

given name · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Lylé is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: g Transferred use of the mainly Scottish surname, in origin a local name for someone who came ‘from the island’ (Anglo-Norman de I’isle).

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 12K(measured from records)
  • ISIceland1 in 351K
  • SESweden1 in 464K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

28,748 people, 2020

Sources
73 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Lyle in US United States, MC Monaco, ZA South Africa.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

g Transferred use of the mainly Scottish surname, in origin a local name for someone who came ‘from the island’ (Anglo-Norman de I’isle). (The island in question would in many cases have been an area of higher, dry ground in a marsh or fen, rather than in a sea or river.) There may have been some confusion with pLyall.

Sources 5

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Scottish Surnames
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Lylé counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Lylé is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—28,7481 in 12K28KLyle71
SE Sweden—221 in 464K22—1
NL Netherlands—111 in 1.6M11—2
PL Poland—41 in 9.6M4——
ZA South Africa—≈2 est.≈1 in 31M—Lyle6
CR Costa Rica—21 in 2.5M2——
IS Iceland—11 in 351K1——
MC Monaco#385———Lyle1

28,748 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Lylé is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia

    Languages: English, Arabic, Swahili

    Also written Lyle, Lÿlê, Lylê

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Lylé under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Lylé mean, and where does it come from?
g Transferred use of the mainly Scottish surname, in origin a local name for someone who came ‘from the island’ (Anglo-Norman de I’isle). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dictionary of American Family Names and 3 other sources.
Is Lylé a male or female name?
Lylé is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Lylé have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 29 thousand people named Lylé, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lyle.
Where is Lylé most common?
Lylé is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 12 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Lylé?
In the United States, the national register counted 28,748 people named Lylé in 2020, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
How common is Lylé compared with other names?
In Monaco, Lylé is the 385th most common given name of 1,167 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Lylé” — the 385th most common given name in Monaco. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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