How Many People Are Named Carlyle?
people named Carlyle are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 205,276 people in the US has this name
Based on 4,071 babies named Carlyle in Social Security records from 1892 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
115 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of CARLISLE.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Carlyle in English. Counting Carlyle and these spellings together, about 3,208 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Carlyle, 11.3% were girls and 88.7% were boys. The share of girls among babies named Carlyle rose from 0.8% in the 1910s to 14.4% in the 2020s. It was highest in the 1990s, at 32.4%.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Carlyle alive today is about 44 years old, and 35% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 19 and 70 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Carlyle first appears in the records in 1892 and was given most often in 1918, to 115 babies. In 2025, 20 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1892 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Carlyle has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #564, in 1918. In 2025 it ranked #4,887.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #4,887 |
| Best rank | #564 (1918) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #725 in the 1920s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Carlyle alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Carlyle were born in New York than in any other state: about 59 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Carlyle was given 4.3 times as often in Virginia, 3.7 times in North Carolina and 3.3 times in Minnesota.
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