girls:
252 births since 1914
#5464 (4th percentile)
boys:
30.4k births since 1889
#662 (86th percentile)
overall:
30.6k births since 1889
#1451 (81st percentile)
The name Doyle is the #1,451 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 30,631 recorded births since 1889. This represents the 81.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 81.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #662 (85.6% percentile) for all time with 30,379 births since 1889. For girls, it ranks #5,464 (4.4% percentile) for all time with 252 births since 1914.
Doyle first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1889 (1889 for boys and 1914 for girls).
The name Doyle has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.2% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Doyle reached its peak popularity in 1931, achieving the 64.5% percentile (ranked #185) with 624 births per million. The name was most common in 1931, with 624 births per million (ranked 64.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Doyle ranks #907 for boys (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 0.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Doyle reached its peak popularity in 1921, achieving the 1.5% percentile (ranked #596) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1914, with 11 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1962.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Doyle".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Doyle is pronounced as doyl, which has 1 syllables.
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