Kyle (given name)
Kyle is a male, and less commonly, a female first name. The name occurs in the United States primarily as a male first name, in the UK and Ireland mainly as a female first name on. Kyle is also found as a family name.
Origin and Meaning
The first name Kyle has arisen subordinated; Kyle was originally a family name of Scottish origin, derived from the Gaelic caol with the meaning strait, river mouth. For the first time the name was possibly to the historic Kyle District of Ayrshire in Scotland.
Bearers of the name
Male first name
- Kyle Bailey ( b. 1982 ), American basketball player
- Kyle Baker (born 1965 ), American cartoonist
- Kyle Brodziak ( born 1984 ), Canadian ice hockey player
- Kyle Busch ( born 1985 ), American racing driver
- Kyle Calder ( born 1979 ), Canadian ice hockey player
- Kyle Chandler (born 1965 ), American television actor
- Kyle Cook ( born 1975 ), American musician
- Kyle Cooper (born 1962 ), American graphic designer
- Kyle Cumiskey ( born 1986 ), Canadian ice hockey player
- Kyle Doyle ( born 1981 ), Canadian ice hockey player
- Kyle Eastwood ( born 1968 ), American jazz musician, son of Clint Eastwood
- Kyle Eckel ( born 1981 ), U.S. American football player
- Kyle Gallner ( born 1986 ), American actor
- Kyle Gass ( born 1960 ), American musician and actor
- Kyle Greentree ( born 1985 ), Canadian ice hockey player
- Kyle Gritters ( b. 1983 ), American cyclist
- Kyle Harrison ( b. 1982 ), American lacrosse player
- Kyle T. Heffner ( * 19 **), American actor
- Kyle Howard (born 1978 ), American actor
- Kyle Korver ( born 1981 ), American basketball player
- Kyle Lafferty (* 1987), Northern Irish footballer
- Kyle Lightbourne (* 1968), bermudischer football and cricket players
- Kyle MacLachlan ( born 1959 ), American actor
- Kyle Massey (* 1991), American actor and rapper
- Kyle McLaren ( b. 1977 ), Canadian ice hockey player
- Kyle Mills (born 1966 ), American thriller author
- Kyle Naughton (* 1988), English footballer of Irish descent
- Kyle Okposo (* 1988), American ice hockey player
- Kyle Petty ( born 1960 ), American NASCAR driver
- Kyle Quincey ( born 1985 ), Canadian ice hockey player
- Kyle Rasmussen ( b. 1968 ), American alpine skier
- Kyle Sabihy ( b. 1983 ), American actor
- Kyle Schmid ( born 1984 ), Canadian actor
- Kyle Secor ( born 1957 ), American actor
- Kyle Shewfelt ( b. 1982 ), Canadian Turner
- Kyle Sullivan (* 1988), American actor
- Kyle Swann (* 1990), American actor
- Kyle Tress ( b. 1981 ), American skeleton pilot
- Kyle Turris (* 1989), Canadian ice hockey player
- Kyle Vanden Bosch (born 1978 ), U.S. American football player
- Kyle Visser ( born 1985 ), American basketball player
- Kyle Walker ( * 1990), English footballer
- Kyle Wamsley ( b. 1980 ), American cyclist
- Kyle Wellwood ( b. 1983 ), Canadian ice hockey player
- Kyle Wilson ( basketball player ) ( b. 1983 ), American basketball player
Female first name
- Kyle Chavarria (* 1995), American actress
- Mediated Kyle rooms, founder of First Book, a non- profit organization, the books to children in the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Colombia
Art figure
- Kyle Broflovski, animated character from the U.S. television series South Park
- Kyle Reese, a character in the Terminator movie series.
Family name
- Alexandra Kyle (* 1988), American actress
- Billy Kyle (1914-1966), American jazz pianist
- Chris Kyle (1974-2013), American sharpshooter and entrepreneurs
- Christopher Kyle ( * 19 **), American screenwriter
- David A. Kyle ( born 1919 ), American science fiction writer and member of the Futurians
- Jack Kyle ( born 1926 ), Irish rugby player
- James H. Kyle (1854-1901), American politician
- John Curtis Kyle (1851-1913), American politician
- Kaylyn Kyle (* 1988), Canadian soccer player
- Kevin Kyle ( b. 1981 ), Scottish football player
- Thomas B. Kyle (1856-1915), American politician
- Kyle Wallace (1910-1988), an Australian officer in the air force of the United Kingdom