Lysle
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Lysle has been given to 440 babies in the U.S. since 1901. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1920, with 20 recorded.
Babies named Lysle, 1987
1 in 721,000
Lysle over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Lysle?
Lysle had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1987, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1987
- 1 in 721,000
- 5 of 3,605,072 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 373,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1987
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 499,770 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Lysle sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1987 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 499,770 children born in 1987 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lysle. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Lysles were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Lysle was born before 1928 — so the typical Lysle is around 97 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 28.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 2.5%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 79
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 28.6% of all recorded uses (126).
Is Lysle rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1920 (20)
- Years since peak
- 105
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 32.7% average annual change
Spellings of Lysle
Lysle is not the most common spelling — Kyle is, with 72.4% against Lysle's 0.07%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Lysle is used
Across 1910–2025, Lysle was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,431,030 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Michigan1 in —
- 2Pennsylvania1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Lysle has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Lysle by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Lysle
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Lysle
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.