Hoyle
Hoyle was last recorded in 1977, when 5 babies were given it; 1,003 Americans have been recorded with it between 1907 and 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hoyle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Hoyle?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #6,229, in 1977; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
38 babies in 1925, the peak
Hoyle peaked in 1925, when 38 boys were given it, #1,154 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 5 | #6,229 | 3.0 |
| 1971 | 8 | #3,777 | 4.5 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,214 | 2.9 |
| 1964 | 8 | #3,136 | 4.0 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,295 | 2.5 |
| 1962 | 5 | #4,300 | 2.4 |
| 1961 | 8 | #3,210 | 3.8 |
| 1960 | 5 | #4,291 | 2.3 |
| 1959 | 6 | #3,765 | 2.8 |
| 1958 | 6 | #3,702 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | 9 | #2,906 | 4.2 |
| 1956 | 5 | #4,178 | 2.4 |
| 1955 | 10 | #2,661 | 4.9 |
| 1954 | 12 | #2,367 | 5.9 |
| 1953 | 13 | #2,228 | 6.6 |
| 1952 | 9 | #2,765 | 4.6 |
| 1951 | 10 | #2,561 | 5.3 |
| 1950 | 13 | #2,146 | 7.3 |
| 1949 | 16 | #1,902 | 9.0 |
| 1948 | 18 | #1,781 | 10.3 |
| 1947 | 16 | #1,950 | 8.7 |
| 1946 | 19 | #1,667 | 11.7 |
| 1945 | 19 | #1,555 | 14.1 |
| 1944 | 16 | #1,775 | 11.7 |
| 1943 | 18 | #1,733 | 12.6 |
| 1942 | 16 | #1,833 | 11.6 |
| 1941 | 19 | #1,616 | 15.5 |
| 1940 | 21 | #1,497 | 18.1 |
| 1939 | 19 | #1,553 | 17.2 |
| 1938 | 26 | #1,321 | 23.4 |
| 1937 | 24 | #1,388 | 22.5 |
| 1936 | 23 | #1,400 | 22.2 |
| 1935 | 23 | #1,437 | 22.1 |
| 1934 | 23 | #1,440 | 22.3 |
| 1933 | 17 | #1,738 | 17.1 |
| 1932 | 25 | #1,405 | 23.9 |
| 1931 | 28 | #1,317 | 26.9 |
| 1930 | 19 | #1,726 | 17.3 |
| 1929 | 29 | #1,327 | 27.0 |
| 1928 | 31 | #1,310 | 28.0 |
| 1927 | 23 | #1,619 | 20.4 |
| 1926 | 32 | #1,286 | 28.8 |
| 1925 | 38 | #1,154 | 34.1 |
| 1924 | 23 | #1,654 | 20.3 |
| 1923 | 32 | #1,287 | 29.2 |
| 1922 | 29 | #1,380 | 26.7 |
| 1921 | 25 | #1,528 | 22.7 |
| 1920 | 26 | #1,476 | 24.4 |
| 1919 | 26 | #1,428 | 26.5 |
| 1918 | 24 | #1,515 | 23.7 |
| 1917 | 32 | #1,207 | 34.6 |
| 1916 | 23 | #1,484 | 25.8 |
| 1915 | 13 | #2,112 | 15.3 |
| 1914 | 14 | #1,727 | 21.4 |
| 1913 | 17 | #1,285 | 33.2 |
| 1912 | 14 | #1,310 | 32.6 |
| 1907 | 5 | #1,437 | 34.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Hoyle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hoyle has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 57 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Hoyle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hoyle, and how old are they?
An estimated 206 Americans named Hoyle and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (21% of everyone recorded); the median is 77 years old and half are between 69 and 83. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 333 people named Hoyle (3 women and girls, 330 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 292 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Hoyle born?
The states with the most babies named Hoyle are North Carolina, Tennessee and Mississippi, with 97% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Tennessee and Mississippi are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 380 | not ranked | 11.4× |
| Tennessee | 34 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Mississippi | 12 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Texas | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Hoyle is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Hoyle is most over-represented in North Carolina: since 1910 it was given 11.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Hoyle with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Hoyle
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Hoyle and names like it
- Compare Hoyle and BeaufordBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sHoyle peaked in 1925.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hoyle since 1910.
- The top names of 1925The year the most babies were named Hoyle.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Hoyle alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with HMost given first.