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Hoyle

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Hoyle is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.

Rank in 2024
fewer than 5 births
Births in 2024
0not in the data
Peak year
192538 births
Best rank
never in the top 1,000
Since 1907
1,003people given the name
Babies named Hoyle, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

1,003 boys have been named Hoyle in the United States since 1907, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1925, with 38 births.

The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 38 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1931, and the 1920s alone account for 29%.

By decade

Decadeboys named Hoyle
1900s5
1910s163
1920s288
1930s227
1940s178
1950s93
1960s36
1970s13

In 1925, its biggest year

Hoyle was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1925 were Robert, John, William, James and Charles. See all of 1925.

Names that rose and fell with Hoyle

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.