girls:
1k births since 1888
#4708 (18th percentile)
boys:
58.8k births since 1880
#442 (90th percentile)
overall:
59.8k births since 1880
#965 (88th percentile)
The name Lyle is the #965 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 59,765 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 87.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 87.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #442 (90.4% percentile) for all time with 58,757 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #4,708 (17.6% percentile) for all time with 1,008 births since 1888.
Lyle has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1888 for girls).
The name Lyle has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Lyle reached its peak popularity in 1922, achieving the 73.8% percentile (ranked #144) with 938 births per million. The name was most common in 1918, with 947 births per million (ranked 73.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2008, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Lyle ranks #726 for boys (20.3% percentile) with 104 births per million, which is 11.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Lyle reached its peak popularity in 1921, achieving the 4.5% percentile (ranked #578) with 25 births per million. The name was most common in 1897, with 40 births per million (ranked 1.5% percentile). Despite a peak around 2020, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for girls. Currently, Lyle ranks #944 for girls (0.3% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 11.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lyle".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Lyle. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Lyle is pronounced as lail, which has 1 syllables.
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