Lyle
Lyle is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 218 births. Its best rank was 145th, in 1918.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 2180.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 19221,055 births
- Best rank
- #145in 1918
- Since 1880
- 59,985people given the name
The story in the numbers
58,977 boys have been named Lyle in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1922, with 1,055 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1943, and the 1920s alone account for 17%. It has spent 120 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,008 girls have also been given it, 1.7% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Lyle | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 126 | |
| 1890s | 371 | |
| 1900s | 674 | |
| 1910s | 5,657 | |
| 1920s | 10,163 | |
| 1930s | 9,058 | |
| 1940s | 8,618 | |
| 1950s | 8,304 | |
| 1960s | 5,258 | |
| 1970s | 2,959 | |
| 1980s | 2,536 | |
| 1990s | 1,506 | |
| 2000s | 942 | |
| 2010s | 1,762 | |
| 2020s | 1,043 |
In 1922, its biggest year
Lyle was the 146th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1922 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1922.
Names that rose and fell with Lyle
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Melvinpeak 1928
- Gordonpeak 1952
- Rolandpeak 1924
- Vernonpeak 1920
- Arnoldpeak 1924
- Normanpeak 1928
- Elroypeak 1922
- Marvinpeak 1928
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.