The surname Moyle
A Cornish nickname surname, carried by 2,076 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex M400
Origin
Cornish origin
Descriptive nickname, from Cornish mool and Welsh moel (“bald; tonsured”).
Moyle is a nickname surname: from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
One of 18 Cornish surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 2,076 people named Moyle in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 148,721 Americans. That is up 0.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,057.
Who is named Moyle
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
94% of people named Moyle identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.7% as two or more races and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 94%
- Two or more races 1.7%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 1.4%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.8%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Moyle has the Soundex code M400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M400.
Other Cornish surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Moyle come from?
- Descriptive nickname, from Cornish mool and Welsh moel (“bald; tonsured”).
- How common is the surname Moyle?
- 2,076 people in the United States had the surname Moyle in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 148,721 Americans. It ranked 14,398th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Moyle?
- In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Moyle identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.7% as two or more races.
- What type of surname is Moyle?
- Moyle is a nickname surname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
- Is the surname Moyle getting more or less common?
- More common. 2,057 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,076 in 2010, up 0.9%.