Lyle

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  • IPA(key): /laɪl/, /ˈlaɪəl/
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  • Rhymes: -aɪl, -aɪəl

Proper noun

Lyle (plural Lyles)

  1. A Scottish habitational surname from Old French from Old French l'isle (“the island”).
  2. A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
    • 1850, Dinah Craik, Olive, Chapman and Hall, page 147:
      By this means she learnt their Christian names, Robert, and Lyle — the latter of which she admired very much, and thought it exactly suited the pretty, delicate younger brother.
    • 2015 February 27, University of Guelph, “Book by U of G History Professor Tells the Story of Prolific Nurse Lyle Creelman”, in News‎[1]:
      Lyle Morrison Creelman died in 2007 at the age of 98, but U of G history professor Susan Armstrong-Reid interviewed her a few years previously and says, "She was a woman of strong character until the end."
  3. A locale in the United States:
    1. An unincorporated community in Decatur County, Kansas.
    2. A minor city and township in Mower County, Minnesota; named for politician and farmer Robert Lyle.
    3. A census-designated place in Klickitat County, Washington; named for postmaster and landowner James O. Lyle.

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