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The lyle Surname

lyle Name Meaning and History

  1. Scottish and English (of Norman origin): topographic name for someone who lived on an island, Old French, Middle English isle (Latin insula).
  2. Scottish, English (of Norman origin) and French: habitational name for someone from the French city of Lille, or from various localities called Lisle, in Dordogne, Loir-et-Cher, Meuse, and Tarn, all of which derive their names from Old French isle (see 1).
  3. Scottish: variant of Lyall.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The lyle name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the lyle family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of lyle Families in the US in 1920
Number of lyle families
 96-190
 33-95		 1-32
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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