Ayles Family History
Ayles Name Meaning
English (Hampshire Dorset and Isle of Wight):: variant of Hayles with loss of H-. perhaps from an unrecorded Middle English personal name Ayl(h)ise Ayl(h)ese (Old English Æthelhyse composed of the elements æthel ‘noble’ + hyse ‘youth warrior’) with the common development of Æthel- to Ayl-. variant of the now extinct surname Ayle from Middle English Old French aie(u)l ‘uncle’ with excrescent -s. Or a variant of another now extinct surname Ayle from Middle English eile Old English egle ‘loathsome troublesome’ with excrescent -s.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022