Surname statistics for Lyle

There are approximately 3,245 people named Lyle in the UK. That makes it the 3,082nd most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 51 are named Lyle.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)32453082N/A51
United Kingdom (1881 census)140129760.00547
Change since 1881+1844-1060+4
Other Countries
United States129512570N/A48
Australia3814162N/A23

Politics

People with the surname Lyle are more likely to be politicians than the average member of the population. When they do become politicians, they are most likely to be elected as SNP.

As of the most recent set of elections, the political parties represented by politicians called Lyle are:

  1. SNP (2)
  2. Conservative (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

John Lyle
David Lyle
Robert Lyle
William Lyle
Andrew Lyle
James Lyle
Ian Lyle
Christopher Lyle
Steven Lyle
Stephen Lyle
Peter Lyle
Richard Lyle
Nigel Lyle
Samuel Lyle
Colin Lyle
Timothy Lyle
Alexander Lyle

Top female forenames

Mary Lyle
Elizabeth Lyle
Karen Lyle
Linda Lyle
Lesley Lyle
Christine Lyle
Samantha Lyle
Maureen Lyle
Sarah Lyle
Michelle Lyle
Christina Lyle
Josephine Lyle
Joanne Lyle
Jane Lyle
Frances Lyle
Eileen Lyle
Suzanne Lyle

Notes

  • Total is the total number of people with that surname.
  • Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
  • Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
  • Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

All of these are approximate figures, and the current figures especially so. The 1881 census figures are correct for what was recorded on the census, but we don't really know how accurate it was. At least, though the 1881 figures won't change, as it's a snapshot of a point in time. The current figures, by contrast, are variable according to births, deaths, migration and marriages, so the values shown here are only a best approximation to whatever was the case when the underlying data was collated and will not be the same as whatever the values are right now.

'N/A' indicates that we don't have data for this name in that country or time (usually because it's quite uncommon there and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one there with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the UK as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.