Given name & surname

Wile

Wile is a masculine given name from Middle English.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Wile comes from Middle English.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Middle English wile.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

As a given name, Wile was taken from the surname.

Similar names

If you love Wile, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.

Old English

Wiltshire

Wiltshire is a surname from Middle English, ultimately from Old English.

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Middle English

Wilken

Wilken is a surname from Middle English.

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79% boys · 21% girls

Middle English

Witter

“a bleacher, caulker, whitewasher”

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Old Norse

Kille

Kille is a surname with more than one origin.

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50% boys · 50% girls

Germanic

Walshe

“outsider”

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Middle English

Wanless

“hopeless, luckless”

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Middle English

Witherspoon

“ram”

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Old English

Weekeen

“village”

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Sibling ideas

Names that share Wile’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.