Kayle is a surname, a Yiddish feminine given name, and a masculine given name. As a Yiddish name, Kayle (קילא KAY-leh) is known from the 13th century as a variant of Keyle, meaning "merry"; it is cognate with the modern German word geil.[1][2]
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Kayle (KAY-el) is also a variant of the masculine given name Kale, which may have originated as an Anglicisation of the Irish name Cathal, or as a masculine equivalent of Kaylee; other variants include Caile, Cayle, Cale, Kaile, and Kail.[3]
The 2000 United States Census found 104 people with the surname Kayle, making it the 146,011th-most-common name in the country. About nine-tenths of the bearers of the surname identified as non-Hispanic white, with small numbers identifying as Black or Asian, but none as Hispanic.[4]
Notable people with the Yiddish name Kayle (קילא KAY-leh) include:
- Kayle, late Medieval super-commentator on Rashi
Notable people with the masculine name Kayle (KAY-el) include:
- Kayle Short (born 1973), Canadian ice hockey player
- Kayle Leogrande (born 1977), American road racing cyclist
- Kayle Connor (born 1990), Australian rugby league player
- Kayle van Zyl (born 1991), South African rugby union player
- Kayle Browning (born 1992), American sport shooter
- Kayle Kirby (born 1998), Australian rules footballer
Notable people with the surname Kayle include:
- Hugh Kayle (died 1604), English goldsmith
- Kortney Wilson (born 1979), American country music singer who used the stage name Kortney Kayle for two single releases
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Cohn, Rella Israly (2008). Yiddish Given Names: A Lexicon. Rowman and Littlefield. p. 197. ISBN 9781461674542.
- ^ Beider, Alexander (2009). Handbook of Ashkenazic Given Names and Their Variants. Avotaynu. p. 121. ISBN 9781886223431.
- ^ Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006). A Dictionary of First Names. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198610601.
- ^ "How common is your last name?". Newsday. Retrieved 5 September 2018.