Hoyle as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Hoyle

What is the meaning of the name Hoyle ?

The baby name Hoyle is a Male name , 1 syllables long and is pronounced /hɔɪl/ (HOYL; rhymes with 'coil').

Hoyle is English in Origin.

Hoyle is an English surname-turned-given name rooted in northern dialect forms of Middle English hoile/hoyle, from Old English holh “hollow, dell,” denoting someone who lived by a hollow or sunken valley. Variant spellings include Hoile, Hoyl, and the pluralized Hoyles; short forms such as Hoy also occur. The name thus carries the topographic sense of “dweller at the hollow” or “from the hollow.”

As a first name, Hoyle emerged in Britain and the United States in the 19th and early 20th centuries, following the fashion for adopting family surnames as given names. It remains uncommon today, with a quietly traditional, bookish tone shaped by the idiom “according to Hoyle,” from the 18th-century games authority Edmond Hoyle, and by the renown of astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle. Usage skews masculine but can be considered unisex in modern contexts.

⚙ Hoyle is extremely rare. Our whole dataset turns up only 4 recorded uses, across 3 countries.