Boyle, Coyle, Doyle, Foyle and Moyle

[TheTecknician]

I assume Doyle and Foyle are Irish surnames but I don't know about the other three? Do they all share common ancestry or is it just coincidence that they rhyme?

They sound a bit like the firemen from Trumpton

Boyle is definitely Irish

Moylan is an Irish surname.

Boyle, Coyle and Doyle are all Irish surnames I'm familiar with.

The only Foyle I'm familiar with is the river and the NI electoral region around Derry.

Never heard of Moyle.

They are anglicisations of Irish names. So the only thing they have in common is that they've been anglicised in that spelling format. The original Irish names are all different.Just edited as it seems Foyle was a French word originally, but same idea.

Thankyou all. I was at school with a Moyle and a Foyle! And I used to work with a Royle.

Isn't Susan Boyle Scottish?

Yes but I’m sure the origin’s irish

Reading the thread title, people might think that the new remake of Trumpton is a tad disappointing!!

The name Boyle is a variant of O'Boyle, derived from the Gaelic 'O'Baoighill', meaning the male descendant of the rash one!

The Irish name Coyle was originally written in a Gaelic form as Mac Giolla Chomhgaill, denoting a devotee of St. Comgal.

The surname Foyle is both English and Irish (of Norman origin ) and a habitational name from any of the places in Normandy called La Feuillie(from Latin folia + -ata 'leafy place wood') either in Seine-Maritime or Manche.

Moyle is a Celtic surname that derives from maol meaning bald.

The name Doyle in Ireland is thought to be of Norse origin and comes from the Irish Ó'Dubhghaill or dubh ghall, the "dark stranger or foreigner".

The forced anglicisation of Irish placemats and surnames represents an enormous cultural loss.

It might be worth remembering that the racist and imperialist practices that were applied in the plantations of the “New World” were first perfected in Ireland.

Bit of an ignorant thread really 🙄

@Behindthethymes If asking honest questions made for ignorant threads then discussion forums would be dull and uninformed. Climb down off your high horse.

In fairness, most of us in Ireland have anglicised surnames. Asking about the origins of names is not ignorant.

And yes, I do agree with you re the cultural loss. However, it's not just the British who imposed that on us. There are plenty of placenames where the NRA and similar bodies have bastardised the Irish version on road signs etc. For example, Gort in Co Galway is Gort Inse Guaire in Irish. However, the NRA has put An Gort on all the road signs. Locals complained and some actually corrected the signs. Rather than producing new, corrected signs, the NRA put up replacements with the exact same error.

I thought this was going to be a baby names thread.
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How is it ignorant in any way? I'm Irish BTW.

Most things in Scotland originated in Ireland.
The Irish gave the bagpipes to Scotland.
Unfortunately the Scots have yet to see the joke.
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And then, to add insult to injury, we went on to develop the uilleann pipes, which actually sound good.

Presumably you wouldn't think people with the surnames May, Day, Gray, Kay and Ray had common ancestry? Languages have common letter combinations / word endings which crop up a lot. You'd almost certainly find groups of similar-ending names in any language.

I thought this was your baby name list 😁😂

That ship never even sailed.