Doyle
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Doyle is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Ireland it is the 11th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Irish Ó Dubhghaill ‘descendant of Dubhghall’ (black stranger, Dane); earliest attestation not given on this page.
- IEIreland≈1 in 467(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 2K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 2.3K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 558 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 467 (inferred from the name graph)
74,458 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Irish Ó Dubhghaill ‘descendant of Dubhghall’ (black stranger, Dane); earliest attestation not given on this page
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Doyle 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #354 | 74,458 | 1 in 4.5K | 74K | Doyle | 558 |
| GB United Kingdom | #196 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | listed | Doyle | 297 |
| CA Canada | #222 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Doyle | 243 |
| AU Australia | #162 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | 2 | Doyle | 250 |
| IE Ireland | #11 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 467 | — | Doyle | 168 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | 111 | 1 in 913 | 111 | — | 6 |
74,458 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Doyle is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, From Dubhghall ‘dark foreigner’; also from French place-names Oyle/Ouilly; later used as a first name.
as a nameIrish first names
In English, O Dubhghaill / Dubhghall 'dark foreigner'; prevalent on Ireland's south-east coast, especially Wexford
as a nameIrish family names
In English, Irish variant of Dougall
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Irish and English: variant of DOUGAL and DUGALD , in part derived from an Anglicized form of the Gaelic surname Ó Dubhghaill ‘descendant of Dubhghall’.
as a word
In Croatian, engleski liječnik i pisac kriminalističkih romana, najpoznatiji kao tvorac lika detektiva Sherlocka Holmesa
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Charles Altamont Doyleb. 1832GBVictorian artist (1832-1893)
- Arthur Conan Doyleb. 1859GBBritish writer and physician (1859–1930)
- David Doyleb. 1929USAmerican actor (1929–1997)
- Brian Doyle-Murrayb. 1945USAmerican actor
- Mike Doyleb. 1946GBEnglish footballer (1946-2011)
- Christopher Doyleb. 1952AUAustralian-Hong Kong cinematographer and film director
- Patrick Doyleb. 1953GBScottish film composer (born 1953)
- Roddy Doyleb. 1958IEIrish author
- Maria Doyle Kennedyb. 1964IEIrish singer
- Mike Doyleb. 1972USAmerican actor, screenwriter, director and producer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 51 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 74K | #441 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 74K | #391 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 72K | #447 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025) | 2025 | 111 | #152 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Doyle mean, and where does it come from?
- Irish Ó Dubhghaill ‘descendant of Dubhghall’ (black stranger, Dane); earliest attestation not given on this page Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- In which country does Doyle have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 74 thousand people named Doyle, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled doyle.
- How common is the name Doyle?
- In the United States, the national register counted 74,458 people named Doyle in 2010, about 1 in 4.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Doyle compared with other names?
- In the United States, Doyle is the 354th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames 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, “Doyle” — the 354th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.