Cyle
Last seen for girls in 1989 at #12,362 · #8,243 for boys in 2025, 9 births
Given to boys 99.2% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1990 · 103 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,980since 1960
Cyle over time
Rank among boys' names. Cyle has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #8,243 | 9 | |
| 2024 | — | — | ||
| 2023 | — | — | ||
| 2022 | — | #12,330 | 5 | |
| 2021 | — | — | ||
| 2020 | — | #12,022 | 5 | |
| 2019 | — | — | ||
| 2018 | — | #8,819 | 8 | |
| 2017 | — | #7,095 | 11 | |
| 2016 | — | #8,146 | 9 | |
| 2015 | — | #10,644 | 6 | |
| 2014 | — | #6,632 | 12 | |
| 2013 | — | #5,404 | 16 | |
| 2012 | — | #4,533 | 21 | |
| 2011 | — | #5,200 | 17 | |
| 2010 | — | #5,251 | 17 | |
| 2009 | — | #3,551 | 30 | |
| 2008 | — | #3,421 | 32 | |
| 2007 | — | #4,127 | 24 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,979 | 37 | |
| 2005 | — | #3,091 | 33 | |
| 2004 | — | #4,602 | 18 | |
| 2003 | — | #2,674 | 37 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,974 | 56 | |
| 2001 | — | #2,562 | 37 | |
| 2000 | — | #2,049 | 49 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,671 | 63 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,719 | 59 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,599 | 63 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,616 | 60 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,559 | 60 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,192 | 93 | |
| 1993 | — | #1,179 | 90 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,084 | 103 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,103 | 98 | |
| 1990 | — | #1,042 | 103 | |
| 1989 | #12,362 | 5 | #1,045 | 98 |
| 1988 | — | #1,239 | 68 | |
| 1987 | #11,325 | 5 | #1,195 | 65 |
| 1986 | #10,912 | 5 | #1,299 | 56 |
| 1985 | — | #1,057 | 76 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,690 | 34 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,490 | 41 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,539 | 40 | |
| 1981 | — | #2,779 | 16 | |
| 1980 | — | #3,256 | 13 | |
| 1979 | — | #2,379 | 20 | |
| 1978 | — | #2,473 | 18 | |
| 1977 | — | #3,037 | 13 | |
| 1976 | — | #3,095 | 12 | |
| 1975 | — | #3,078 | 12 | |
| 1974 | — | #3,318 | 10 | |
| 1973 | — | #4,054 | 7 | |
| 1972 | — | #2,659 | 13 | |
| 1971 | — | #3,146 | 10 | |
| 1970 | — | #2,891 | 11 | |
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| 1968 | — | #3,673 | 6 | |
| 1967 | — | #2,611 | 10 | |
| 1966 | — | #2,627 | 10 | |
| 1965 | — | #3,930 | 5 | |
| 1964 | — | #3,601 | 6 | |
| 1963 | — | #3,044 | 8 | |
| 1962 | — | #3,305 | 7 | |
| 1961 | — | #3,097 | 8 | |
| 1960 | — | #3,665 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Cyle! It came in at #3,665, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1969, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Cyle is popular in 1986
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Ohio#691 · 1 in 15,098
- California#1,424 · 1 in 32,614
Best ever in a state: #371 in Minnesota, 1990.
Show every state
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| Ohio | #691 | 5 | 1 in 15,098 |
| California | #1,424 | 7 | 1 in 32,614 |
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See more about Cyle
- 3,779 spots since 2020 (#12,022 → #8,243)
- 2,401 spots since 2015 (#10,644 → #8,243)
- Debuted 1960
- Peaked 1990 at #1,042 (103 births)
- Births halved by 2000, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 19,392 boys born in 1992 were named Cyle (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 189,786 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,042 in 1990, was only 1 in 19,942 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 40.0% of all boys named Cyle (792) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 66 | #2,611 (1967) | #3,284 |
| 1970s | 126 | #2,379 (1979) | #3,013 |
| 1980s | 507 | #1,045 (1989) | #1,659 |
| 1990s | 792 | #1,042 (1990) | #1,376 |
| 2000s | 353 | #1,974 (2002) | #3,103 |
| 2010s | 117 | #4,533 (2012) | #6,858 |
| 2020s | 19 | #8,243 (2025) | #10,865 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Cyle in 1986
Top girls' names in 1986
Top boys' names in 1986
More about 1986
girls
1,715,547 girls got a published name in 1986; 1 in 343,109 of them was named Cyle, which outranked 15.0% of the 12,836 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,924 names at #10,912; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,841,515 boys got a published name in 1986; 1 in 32,884 of them was named Cyle, which outranked 83.4% of the 7,830 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,286Torrance57
- #1,286Ulises57
- #1,286Yitzchok57
- #1,299Cyle56
- #1,299Avraham56
- #1,299Axel56
- #1,299Dajuan56
- #1,320Abdullah55
- #1,320Amar55
- #1,320Codie55
Tied with 20 names at #1,299; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.