Given name & surname
Boyle
“vain, foolish”·“pledge”
Boyle is a surname with more than one origin.
Meaning & origin
What it means
As an Irish surname, Boyle is possibly built from elements meaning “vain, foolish” and “pledge”.
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Where it comes from
Boyle has more than one origin: as an Irish surname, it comes from Irish; as a Scottish surname of Norman origin, it comes from Norman.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Boyle’s family of names
In English usage, Boyle as a surname has a related form in BOLL. In English usage, Boyle as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the Russian form Бойл.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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