Kayle

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{{Infobox given name

| language = Yiddish, Irish?

| variant = {{unbulleted list|Yiddish: Keyle|Irish: Kale, Caile, Cayle, Cale, Kaile, Kail}}

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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 {{wikt-lang|de|geil}}.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KXX9AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA197|first=Rella Israly|last=Cohn|title=Yiddish Given Names: A Lexicon|publisher=Rowman and Littlefield|year=2008|page=197|isbn=9781461674542}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EEYrAQAAIAAJ&q=kayle|first=Alexander|last=Beider|title=Handbook of Ashkenazic Given Names and Their Variants|publisher=Avotaynu|year=2009|isbn=9781886223431|page=121}}

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.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9nd05X_awIgC&pg=PT268|first=Patrick|last=Hanks|authorlink=Patrick Hanks|first2=Kate|last2=Hardcastle|first3=Flavia|last3=Hodges|title=A Dictionary of First Names|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2006|isbn=9780198610601}}

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.{{cite web|url=https://projects.newsday.com/databases/long-island/census-last-names/?where=name^Kayle&offset=0|title=How common is your last name?|newspaper=Newsday|access-date=5 September 2018}}

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 Browning (born 1992), American sport shooter
• Kayle Connor (born 1990), Australian rugby league player
• Kayle Kirby (born 1998), Australian rules footballer
• Kayle Leogrande (born 1977), American road racing cyclist
• Kayle Osborne (born 2002), Canadian ice hockey player
• Kayle Short (born 1973), Canadian ice hockey player
• Kayle van Zyl (born 1991), South African rugby union player

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