Voyle


Voyle is both a given name and a surname. The origin of the name is from the Welsh language. It was originally moel, meaning bald, but became mutated It can refer to a person or a land feature such as the poorly vegetated top of a round hill. The name is often mis-spelt on census returns and the like, as it became anglicised. As the Welsh letter f is sounded as v then the name became spelled as the following variants;
Voil, Voel, Voyl, Voyle and even Voyles.
The name tended to be concentrated in Pembrokeshire and other areas of South Wales until recent times.
It may refer to: