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hoyle Name Meaning and History

  1. English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): topographic name for someone who lived by a depression or low-lying spot, from Old English holh ‘hole’, ‘hollow’, ‘depression’ (see Hole).
  2. Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Giolla Chomhghaill, a patronymic from a personal name meaning ‘devotee of (Saint) Comhghal’ (see McCool). Woulfe, however, traces Hoyle (as well as MacIlhoyle and McElhill) to Mac Giolla Choille ‘son of the lad of the wood’, which has sometimes been translated as Woods.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of hoyle Families in the US in 1920
Number of hoyle families
 80-158
 27-79
 1-26
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