Doyle

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.

• English:/dɔɪl/●(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Doyle, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Conan
• Holmes
• Sherlock
• Sir
• Boyd

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Doyle is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate name2 spellings in the group

76 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

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 name·Irish first names

• In English, O Dubhghaill / Dubhghall 'dark foreigner'; prevalent on Ireland's south-east coast, especially Wexford

  as a name·Irish family names

• In English, Irish variant of Dougall

  as a name·Encyclopedia 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 word·Hrvatski 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.

• Arthur Conan Doyleb. 1859GBBritish writer and physician (1859–1930)
• David Doyleb. 1929USAmerican actor (1929–1997)
• Patrick Doyleb. 1953GBScottish film composer (born 1953)

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).

51 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 31 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

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.

How do you pronounce Doyle?

In English /dɔɪl/ (Wiktionary).

Which countries have the most people with the surname Doyle?

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. After it come United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and Ireland; the country table on this page ranks them.

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.