Hyle
surname · Latin script
Meaning: matter
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈhaɪɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hyle is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 709K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 15K
- XKKosovo≈1 in 233K
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)
- Sources
- 162 (measured from records)
- 1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
469 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
matter
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hyle 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 | 469 | 1 in 709K | 538 | Hyle | 162 |
| FI Finland | 362 | 1 in 15K | 362 | Hyle | 6 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈79 est. | ≈1 in 829K | — | Hyle | 7 |
| IT Italy | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Hyle | 1 |
| ES Spain | ≈52 est. | ≈1 in 964K | — | Hyle | 2 |
| SG Singapore | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 582K | — | Hyle | 1 |
| XK Kosovo | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 233K | 45 | — | 1 |
469 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search). 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)
Hyle 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.
Americanized spelling of Dutch Heil.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Latin, matter, the fundamental matter of all things, as opposing the form of all things (Aristotle’s doctrine of matter and form or hylomorphism); in Mediaeval Latin respectively materia prima and forma substantialis
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In yol, to pour, as liquor or rain.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, to yell
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In izh, seal
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Michael William Hyleb. 1901USCatholic bishop (1901-1967)
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 11 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 538 | #38,644 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 497 | #46,253 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 469 | #45,569 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 362 | #4,589 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 143 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Hyle mean, and where does it come from?
- matter Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Hyle?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhaɪɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Hyle have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 469 people named Hyle, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hyle.
- Where is Hyle most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hyle is densest in Finland — about 1 in 15 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Hyle?
- In the United States, the national register counted 469 people named Hyle in 2010, about 1 in 709 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Hyle?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hyleThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Hyle”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.