Meaning not yet researched.
Doyle: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 10 in 2025. Its best rank was #195 in 1931.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #195 in 1931; #7,815 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Doyle in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,815 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1931, at #195.
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Doyle: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 10 boys in 2025. Peak: #195 in 1931 · most boys in one year: 667 (1931).
In 2025, 10 US boys were named Doyle, making it the 7,815th most common boys’ name of the year, down 435 places from #7,380 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 11 boys named Doyle in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #195, reached in 1931. That year also had the most boys given the name: 667. For comparison, it was #6,783 in 2015 and #298 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Doyle in 137 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1889 with 9 babies. In all, 30,652 US babies have been given the name, 0.8% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1930s, with 6,092 babies named Doyle.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 115 US boys were named Doyle; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 18. In 2025 that was about 1 in 170,808 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Doyal, Doll and Doil are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Doyal (1,149), Doll (387), Doil (267), Doyl (210), Doyel (93), Doel (25).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Doyle in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 10 | #7,815 |
| 2024 | — | — | 11 | #7,380 |
| 2023 | — | — | 9 | #8,426 |
| 2022 | — | — | 8 | #9,210 |
| 2021 | — | — | 14 | #6,105 |
| 2020 | — | — | 11 | #7,152 |
| 2019 | — | — | 11 | #7,290 |
| 2018 | — | — | 13 | #6,442 |
| 2017 | — | — | 18 | #5,155 |
| 2016 | — | — | 10 | #7,746 |
| 2015 | — | — | 12 | #6,783 |
| 2014 | — | — | 8 | #8,997 |
| 2013 | — | — | 17 | #5,232 |
| 2012 | — | — | 11 | #7,190 |
| 2011 | — | — | 10 | #7,644 |
| 2010 | — | — | 20 | #4,725 |
| 2009 | — | — | 21 | #4,624 |
| 2008 | — | — | 27 | #3,856 |
| 2007 | — | — | 29 | #3,627 |
| 2006 | — | — | 32 | #3,329 |
| 2005 | — | — | 34 | #3,034 |
| 2004 | — | — | 25 | #3,665 |
| 2003 | — | — | 22 | #3,878 |
| 2002 | — | — | 22 | #3,821 |
| 2001 | — | — | 25 | #3,440 |
| 2000 | — | — | 36 | #2,585 |
| 1999 | — | — | 33 | #2,631 |
| 1998 | — | — | 35 | #2,470 |
| 1997 | — | — | 28 | #2,779 |
| 1996 | — | — | 29 | #2,616 |
| 1995 | — | — | 43 | #1,960 |
| 1994 | — | — | 40 | #2,053 |
| 1993 | — | — | 44 | #1,876 |
| 1992 | — | — | 57 | #1,552 |
| 1991 | — | — | 44 | #1,807 |
| 1990 | — | — | 59 | #1,470 |
| 1989 | — | — | 61 | #1,400 |
| 1988 | — | — | 60 | #1,331 |
| 1987 | — | — | 52 | #1,405 |
| 1986 | — | — | 55 | #1,324 |
| 1985 | — | — | 60 | #1,232 |
| 1984 | — | — | 67 | #1,101 |
| 1983 | — | — | 65 | #1,110 |
| 1982 | — | — | 78 | #1,025 |
| 1981 | — | — | 87 | #966 |
| 1980 | — | — | 85 | #975 |
| 1979 | — | — | 98 | #884 |
| 1978 | — | — | 99 | #866 |
| 1977 | — | — | 105 | #830 |
| 1976 | — | — | 118 | #763 |
| 1975 | — | — | 124 | #749 |
| 1974 | — | — | 163 | #628 |
| 1973 | — | — | 148 | #657 |
| 1972 | — | — | 160 | #621 |
| 1971 | — | — | 213 | #553 |
| 1970 | — | — | 234 | #529 |
| 1969 | — | — | 273 | #463 |
| 1968 | — | — | 285 | #454 |
| 1967 | — | — | 280 | #451 |
| 1966 | — | — | 358 | #396 |
| 1965 | — | — | 312 | #437 |
| 1964 | — | — | 378 | #414 |
| 1963 | — | — | 363 | #421 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,052 | 427 | #391 |
| 1961 | — | — | 385 | #403 |
| 1960 | — | — | 404 | #393 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,175 | 446 | #374 |
| 1958 | — | — | 458 | #359 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,636 | 499 | #338 |
| 1956 | — | — | 526 | #324 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,082 | 545 | #314 |
| 1954 | — | — | 515 | #315 |
| 1953 | — | — | 487 | #320 |
| 1952 | — | — | 563 | #295 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,488 | 519 | #304 |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,887 | 521 | #298 |
| 1949 | — | — | 595 | #274 |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,819 | 532 | #300 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,527 | 620 | #272 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,571 | 509 | #286 |
| 1945 | — | — | 456 | #283 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,792 | 530 | #252 |
| 1943 | — | — | 521 | #266 |
| 1942 | — | — | 568 | #238 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,081 | 577 | #222 |
| 1940 | — | — | 621 | #207 |
| 1939 | — | — | 569 | #214 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,497 | 585 | #208 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,539 | 576 | #207 |
| 1936 | 8 | #3,176 | 597 | #203 |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,874 | 629 | #199 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,555 | 608 | #203 |
| 1933 | 10 | #2,734 | 611 | #196 |
| 1932 | 11 | #2,692 | 578 | #214 |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,828 | 667 | #195 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,755 | 601 | #214 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,764 | 559 | #227 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,863 | 578 | #228 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,628 | 569 | #232 |
| 1926 | 7 | #3,980 | 496 | #251 |
| 1925 | — | — | 500 | #254 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,611 | 468 | #262 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,154 | 459 | #263 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,747 | 442 | #269 |
| 1921 | 14 | #2,533 | 464 | #260 |
| 1920 | 10 | #3,164 | 395 | #280 |
| 1919 | — | — | 315 | #312 |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,310 | 321 | #314 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,774 | 327 | #288 |
| 1916 | 6 | #4,051 | 282 | #309 |
| 1915 | 11 | #2,578 | 264 | #323 |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,476 | 198 | #325 |
| 1913 | — | — | 139 | #351 |
| 1912 | — | — | 115 | #357 |
| 1911 | — | — | 52 | #397 |
| 1910 | — | — | 41 | #423 |
| 1909 | — | — | 25 | #519 |
| 1908 | — | — | 30 | #439 |
| 1907 | — | — | 38 | #361 |
| 1906 | — | — | 23 | #466 |
| 1905 | — | — | 21 | #496 |
| 1904 | — | — | 13 | #652 |
| 1903 | — | — | 16 | #555 |
| 1902 | — | — | 25 | #405 |
| 1901 | — | — | 10 | #691 |
| 1900 | — | — | 15 | #653 |
| 1899 | — | — | 12 | #589 |
| 1898 | — | — | 14 | #585 |
| 1897 | — | — | 15 | #522 |
| 1896 | — | — | 8 | #841 |
| 1895 | — | — | 7 | #902 |
| 1894 | — | — | 8 | #804 |
| 1893 | — | — | 5 | #1,082 |
| 1892 | — | — | 6 | #987 |
| 1891 | — | — | 7 | #790 |
| 1890 | — | — | 5 | #1,041 |
| 1889 | — | — | 9 | #687 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).