Family name Idle (Idle 
, איידל, アイドル) , worldwide, is quite a rare surname. The cognomen Idle is characteristic of Somalia, where it is quite a rare surname, Israel, and the United Kingdom, where it is a rare surname. Not in comparison with a country's population, it is the most numerous in Somalia, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Much less frequently, Idle is the forename as well as the last name.
| christopher idle politician (1771–1819) (b. 1771) |
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eric idle British actor, GB (b. 1943) |
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| christopher idle Anglican priest, hymn writer, and hymnologist, GB (b. 1938) |
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| jeff idle researcher, ORCID id # 0000-0002-6143-1520 (b. 1950) |
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| molly idle American children's book illustrator |
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| salwa abdullahi idle researcher |
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| john idle Peerage person ID=658831 |
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