The Bayle surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 564 people carried this name — #39,052 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 526,300 people counted. That is up 13% from 501 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Bayle surname
Borrowed from French Bayle, itself from Occitan.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Bayle» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 4,925 people named Bayle.
110 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 98 départements, most often Loire.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 81 people named Bayle live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
40 people named Bayle live in Switzerland.
They live in 4 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Vaud.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
Who carried it
People named Bayle,
with a public archive behind them.
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Pierre Bayle 1647–1706 · writer -
Antoine Laurent Bayle 1799–1858 · physician -
Jean-Baptiste Bayle-Mouillard 1800–1885 · lawyer -
Jacqueline de Bayle d. 1687
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Jean Bayle 1609–1685 · pastor
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François Bayle 1622–1709 · physician
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Bayle.
- Bay 6,350 · U.S. census
- Baya 199 · U.S. census
- Bayard 1,556 · U.S. census
- Baye 677 · U.S. census
- Bayens 241 · U.S. census
- Bayer 10,544 · U.S. census
- Bayles 2,962 · U.S. census
- Baylon 1,357 · U.S. census
- Bayo 294 · U.S. census
- Bayon 526 · U.S. census
- Bayona 1,219 · U.S. census
- Bayonne 247 · U.S. census
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