Origin
Ile : see Isle.
Adebowale : from the personal name Adébò̩wálé (Yoruba adé bò̩ wá (sí) ilé ‘the crown has come home again’).
Adekunle : West African (Nigeria): from the Yoruba personal name Adékúnlé from adé kún ilé ‘the crown fills the house crowns are many in the house’ with ‘crown’ understood as a metaphor for ‘child’.
Adewale : West African (Nigeria): from the Yoruba personal name Adéwálé from adé wá ilé ‘the crown has come home’ with ‘crown’ understood as a metaphor for ‘child’.
Adewole : West African (Nigeria): from the Yoruba personal name Adéwo̩lé from adé wo̩ ilé ‘the crown has entered the house (family)’ with ‘crown’ understood as a metaphor for ‘child’.
Ayodele : West African (Nigeria): from the Yoruba personal name Ayò̩délé from ayò̩ dé ilé ‘joy has reached the house’.
Ihle : 1: North German: topographic name for someone who lived by or owned a piece of land by the Ihle River a tributary of the Elbe northeast of Magdeburg.2: Norwegian: habitational name from any of several farmsteads in southeastern Norway named Ile from Old Norse íla ‘well spring’.
Kolawole : West African (Nigeria): from the Yoruba personal name Kó̩láwo̩lé from kó o̩lá wo̩ ilé ‘(he) who brings high estate into the house’.
Lyle : 1: Scottish and English (of Norman origin): topographic or habitational name from Anglo-Norman French del isle ‘from the island’ (from Latin de insula) denoting someone who lived on an island or who came from a place in France named Ile Isle or L'Isle. The surname may also in some cases be from Lille (Nord). Compare Lisle and Iles.2: Scottish: variant of Lyall.
Oluwole : West African (Nigeria): from the Yoruba personal name Olúwọlé from olú wọ ilé ‘God enters the home’.
Oyedele : from the personal name Oyèdélé (Yoruba oyè dé ilé ‘a new member [of our chieftaincy family] enters the house’).
Oyewole : West African (Nigeria): from the Yoruba personal name Oyèwọlé from oyè wọ ilé ‘new member (of our chieftaincy family) enters the home’.
Re : 1: Italian: from re ‘king’ possibly denoting someone who lived by or worked in a royal court or someone who behaved in regal fashion had played the part of a king in a pageant or who had earned the title in some contest of skill. Compare Lore 1.2: Italian: habitational name from a place called with re ‘river’ for example Re in Novara.3: In some cases possibly also French (Ré): habitational name from a place so named Indre or from the Île de Ré.
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Source : FANBI : The Oxford Dictionary if Family Names in Britain and Ireland, ©2016, University of the West of England
DAFN2 : Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, ©2022 by Patrick Hanks and Oxford University Press
FANBI : The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain, ©2021, University of the West of England
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