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Moyle

Moyle

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A family name often used by people from England or Ireland
  • proper noun
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  • Mr. Moyle also has several monthly lunches with employees in small groups of six to eight, so that he can personally visit with, listen to, and promote teamwork.
  • Peter Moyle
  • B. Moyle

Examples

  • The owner, Shep Moyle, personally participates in these regular meetings, which many times include outside guest speakers.

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  • Peter B. Moyle (e-mail: pbmoyle@ucdavis.edu) is a professor of fish biology with the Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology, and associate director of the Center for Watershed Sciences at the University of California, Davis.

    Academic text (2009)
  • (6) Franny Moyle, Turner, London 2016.

    Academic text (2018)
  • Photograph: Peter B. Moyle.

    Academic text (2009)
  • Photographs: Peter B. Moyle.

    Academic text (2009)
  • Peter Moyle, of the University of California, Davis, pointed out that "trout were introduced into thousands of alpine lakes in California 50 to 100 years ago, but only recently has the collapse of the amphibian fauna of these lakes occurred.

    Academic text (1996)
  • A very recent biographer, Franny Moyle, says that the couple married in 1825, knowing that their son John Pound Booth was baptized on 13 November 1825 in Margate.

    Academic text (2018)
  • Lee Moyle and his family run the largest mink farms in the United States.

  • T.F. Moyle had inherited the profitable family business, The Wisconsin Nursery.

  • J.F. stood for John Foxwell Moyle, who, with some help, built the Yorkville Mansion in 1883 for his family.

Surface Forms

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Etymology

Moyle as a family name likely comes from old Irish or Welsh words like maol or moel, which mean 'bald' or 'bare hill'. A helpful way to remember it is to imagine an ancestor with a bare head or a house on a bare hill, so Moyle became a name from a place or a nickname.