How rare is the name Doyle?

13,415 people in the United States have the first name Doyle, about 1 in 22,514. It ranks #2,033 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

DOYLE

#2,033

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
13,415
About
1 in 22,514
This common or more
78.2%
Who bears it

Of the 13,415 people named Doyle, 88.1% reported their origin as White, 5.6% as Black and 3.2% as two or more races. 99.2% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Doyle peaked in 1931, when 677 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18892025
Peak year
1931
Births that year
677
In 2025*
10 ▼99%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 30,652 babies have been given the name since 1889. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Doyle by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1930s, when it ranked #460. The largest share of babies named Doyle, 34.4%, were born between 1928 and 1945, the Silent Generation's birth years.

1880s#2,8609
1890s#1,72587
1900s#1,265216
1910s#6952,094
1920s#5505,002
1930s#4606,092
1940s#5625,559
1950s#7205,112
1960s#9323,471
1970s#1,5621,462
1980s#2,821670
1990s#4,863412
2000s#8,097273
2010s#14,125130
2020s#15,68463
Before 19010.4%
Greatest Generation 1901–2720.1%
Silent Generation 1928–4534.4%
Baby boom 1946–6430.5%
Generation X 1965–8010%
Millennials 1981–962.9%
Generation Z 1997–121.3%
2013 and later0.5%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Doyle is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Doyle has been most common in Arkansas (8.4×), Oklahoma (6.4×), and Tennessee (3.2×), and least common in Minnesota (0.27×).

26,671 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Doyle

#2,031 Felicity · 13,421#2,032 Leighton · 13,417#2,034 Kane · 13,411#2,035 Fannie · 13,408

Also a last name

As a last name, Doyle ranks #447 of 156,621, with 71,863 people. See Doyle as a last name

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