Pyle
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Denver, actor
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
Pyle is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 4.8K(measured from records)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 12Kfew records
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 14Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Pyle itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 397 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.8K (inferred from the name graph)
15,180 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana
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)Denver, actor
Cited for this meaning 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Pyle 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 | 15,180 | 1 in 22K | 15K | Pyle | 397 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 19K | 2.1K | Pyle | 151 |
| CA Canada | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Pyle | 94 |
| AU Australia | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 25K | 1 | Pyle | 94 |
| IN India | 551as Pail | 1 in 2.4M | 551 | Pyle | 12 |
| SG Singapore | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Pyle | 5 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Pyle | 34 |
| IE Ireland | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Pyle | 10 |
| GL Greenland | 195as Fly | 1 in 295 | 195 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 155 | 1 in 4.8K | 155 | — | 4 |
15,180 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 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)Pyle is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Polish, locative/vocative singular of pył
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, pillar; pile, heap, stack
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Czech, vocative singular of pyl
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In yol, pail
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)- Howard Pyleb. 1853USAmerican illustrator and author (1853-1911)
- Gladys Pyleb. 1890USAmerican politician (1890-1989)
- Ernie Pyleb. 1900USAmerican war correspondent and writer (1900–1945)
- John Howard Pyleb. 1906USAmerican politician (1906-1987)
- Denver Pyleb. 1920USAmerican actor (1920-1997)
- Pip Pyleb. 1950GBEnglish drummer (1950–2006)
- Dennis Pyleb. 1961USAmerican politician
- Richard L. Pyleb. 1967USAmerican ichthyologist
- Missi Pyleb. 1972USAmerican actress and singer
- Mike Pyleb. 1975USAmerican martial artist
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)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 15K | #2,389 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 15K | #2,212 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 14K | #2,474 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 2.1K | #3,463 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 155 | #470 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Pyle mean, and where does it come from?
- Denver, actor Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- In which country does Pyle have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 15 thousand people named Pyle, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pyle.
- Where is Pyle most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pyle is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 4.8 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Pyle?
- In the United States, the national register counted 15,180 people named Pyle in 2010, about 1 in 22 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pyleThe 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, “Pyle”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.