Lyle

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Lyle: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Lyle: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #148, reached in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
34times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#148highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#680
1997	#874
1998	#716
1999	#1281
2000	#1425
2001	#1286
2002	#1033
2003	#2189
2004	#1596
2005	#2754
2006	#2282
2007	#1756
2008	#1828
2009	#1568
2010	#1082
2011	#852
2012	#998
2013	#1001
2014	#695
2015	#888
2016	#833
2017	#906
2018	#1284
2019	#1113
2020	#1111
2021	#1055
2022	#1104
2023	#1701
2024	#1322

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #148 among boys in Scotland, #1322 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #680 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1322 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Lyle appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 595 births with the name.

Lyle across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Lyle's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#680 (1996)	#680 (1996)	#1322 (2024)	29 of 29	595 (1996–2024)	47 (2014)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#398 (2014)	#326 (2021)	#352 (2022)	4 of 9	15 (2014–2022)	5 (2021)

Lyle by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Lyle in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	73	4 of 10	18
2000s	100	10 of 10	10
2010sbusiest	312	10 of 10	31
2020s	110	5 of 10	22

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 31 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Lyle appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #148 in Scotland in 2024.

Lyle's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#1322	20	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1701	14	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1104	25	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1055	27	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1111	24	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1113	24	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1284	20	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#906	34	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#833	38	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#888	34	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#695	47	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1001	28	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#998	28	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#852	34	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1082	25	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1568	14	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1828	11	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1756	11	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2282	7	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#2754	5	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1596	10	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#2189	6	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1033	16	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1286	11	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1425	9	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1281	10	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#716	23	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#874	17	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#680	23	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	male	#352	4	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	male	#326	5	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	male	#418	3	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	male	#398	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#148	31	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #148, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 47 births, registered in England and Wales in 2014.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2014, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Lyna · #2706, 18y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Macey · #148, 29y
Preston · #149, 30y
Ariel · #146, 31y
Dua · #151, 26y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Ailsa · #148, 29y
Ffion · #148, 29y
Macey · #148, 29y
Cain · #149, 31y

Lyle was ranked #148 in Scotland · Boys in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Lyle and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Lyle without appearing here.

Lyle moved ahead of

Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1701 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1322 and #5119.
Ashleigh Compare
In 2005 they stood at #2754 and #2754 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #2282 and #4052.
Grant Compare
In 2009 they stood at #1568 and #1568 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2010 that had become #1082 and #1911.
Glenn Compare
In 2008 they stood at #1828 and #1828 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2009 that had become #1568 and #2318.

Moved ahead of Lyle

Hunter Compare
In 2004 they stood at #1596 and #1878 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #2754 and #1135.
Cillian Compare
In 2004 they stood at #1596 and #3009 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #2754 and #1190.
Magnus Compare
In 2002 they stood at #1033 and #1077 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2003 that had become #2189 and #813.
Hudson Compare
In 2002 they stood at #1033 and #2005 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2003 that had become #2189 and #1092.

Moved the opposite way to Lyle

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Lyle went from #680 to #1322 while Albie went from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Lyle went from #680 to #1322 while Alfie went from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Lyle went from #680 to #1322 while Alfred went from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Lyle went from #680 to #1322 while Archie went from #192 to #10.

Moved the same way as Lyle

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Lyle went from #680 to #1322 and Aaron from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Lyle went from #680 to #1322 and Adam from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Lyle went from #680 to #1322 and Alan from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Lyle went from #680 to #1322 and Alex from #43 to #171.

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #148 in Scotland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Lyle

Lyle at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Lyle across 2 official records

Lyle by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Lyle across 2 official records

Lyle by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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