How common is the surname Carlyle?

3,476 people in the United States had the surname Carlyle in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 88,822 Americans. It ranked 9,357th of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Carlyle?

Buddy Carlyle, American baseball player.

Where is the surname Carlyle most common?

Wikidata records people named Carlyle in the United States.

Is the surname Carlyle getting more or less common?

More common. 3,252 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,476 in 2010, up 6.9%.

Is Carlyle also a first name?

Yes. Carlyle is used as a first name as well as a surname; its first-name page has the meaning and how many babies were given it.

The surname Carlyle

A place surname, carried by 3,476 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex C644 Also a first name

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Carlyle is more common than 94.2% of them.

Origin

An English and Scottish habitational surname, a variant of Carlisle.

Carlyle is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,476 people named Carlyle in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 88,822 Americans. That is up 6.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,252.

#9,357

rank among US surnames

3,476

people in 2010

1.2

per 100,000 Americans

+6.9%

change since 2000 (was #9,224)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#9,350	Hepburn	3,479	88,745
#9,352	McCammon	3,478	88,771
#9,355	Acord	3,477	88,797
#9,357	Devault	3,476	88,822
#9,361	Mundt	3,475	88,848
#9,365	Callison	3,474	88,873
#9,366	Wear	3,473	88,899

Who is named Carlyle

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

79% of people named Carlyle identified as white (not Hispanic), 15% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 79%
Black (not Hispanic) 15%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.9%
Two or more races 1.3%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Carlyles

1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

Buddy Carlyle
American baseball player, born 1977

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Carlyle

Carlile

Carlyle has the Soundex code C644, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C644.

Questions

How common is the surname Carlyle?: 3,476 people in the United States had the surname Carlyle in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 88,822 Americans. It ranked 9,357th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Carlyle?: In the 2010 Census, 79% of people named Carlyle identified as white (not Hispanic), and 15% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Carlyle?: Buddy Carlyle, American baseball player.
Where is the surname Carlyle most common?: Wikidata records people named Carlyle in the United States.
What type of surname is Carlyle?: Carlyle is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Carlyle getting more or less common?: More common. 3,252 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,476 in 2010, up 6.9%.
Is Carlyle also a first name?: Yes. Carlyle is used as a first name as well as a surname; its first-name page has the meaning and how many babies were given it.