Nyle

Last seen for girls in 2022 at #11,231 · #2,991 for boys in 2025, 41 births
Given to boys 98.0% of the time

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Peak · boys
#1,422
1935 · 23 births
Debut · boys
1914
7 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
2,173
since 1914

Nyle over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Nyle has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201935peak #1,422, 1935boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025—#2,99141
2024—#2,63750
2023—#2,36258
2022#11,2318#2,32561
2021#15,2515#1,94377
2020—#1,99671
2019—#2,33958
2018—#2,12266
2017—#2,06567
2016—#1,65596
2015—#2,56548
2014—#2,51649
2013#16,5475#2,66844
2012—#2,35854
2011—#3,36432
2010—#3,37732
2009—#3,33233
2008—#3,82327
2007#17,6365#3,44431
2006—#2,88139
2005#16,4625#4,19821
2004—#3,36828
2003—#4,42618
2002#15,4325#3,25927
2001—#3,84221
2000—#3,92220
1999—#2,93928
1998—#4,01917
1997—#3,06424
1996#13,5185#3,54919
1995—#2,92324
1994—#3,46919
1993—#3,81916
1992—#3,45918
1991—#3,10520
1990—#3,30918
1989—#2,90221
1988—#3,20316
1987—#4,5739
1986—#4,13010
1985—#4,05210
1984—#4,5528
1983—#4,4998
1982—#5,0037
1981—#4,9617
1980—#4,4958
1979—#6,0565
1978—#3,8579
1977—#5,8455
1976—#4,4187
1975——
1974—#4,1907
1973—#3,6948
1972—#3,3449
1971—#4,3756
1970—#4,2306
1969——
1968—#2,9079
1967—#3,2317
1966——
1965—#3,9305
1964—#3,2827
1963—#3,3187
1962—#2,50411
1961—#2,40912
1960—#3,3377
1959—#1,97417
1958—#2,17714
1957—#2,37512
1956—#2,62810
1955—#2,13914
1954—#2,11414
1953—#2,28712
1952—#2,25112
1951—#2,24612
1950—#2,32111
1949—#2,8028
1948—#2,32611
1947—#2,49810
1946—#2,14312
1945—#1,85214
1944—#2,30910
1943—#1,91015
1942—#3,2126
1941—#2,20711
1940—#2,08112
1939—#1,95813
1938—#1,68917
1937—#1,91314
1936—#1,58718
1935—#1,42223
1934—#2,26611
1933—#1,90514
1932—#2,19112
1931—#2,20712
1930—#1,88916
1929—#2,19913
1928#4,1956#1,56923
1927—#2,70310
1926—#2,43612
1925—#2,75510
1924—#1,96417
1923—#2,12315
1922—#3,5327
1921—#2,37613
1920—#2,23114
1919—#3,3917
1918—#2,69910
1917—#2,56210
1916—#2,54310
1915—#3,8255
1914—#2,6517
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First appearance
1914

The first year at least five boys were named Nyle! It came in at #2,651, and was given to 7 baby boys.

Quietest stretch: 1965–1966, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Nyle is popular in 1935

No state had 5 or more boys named Nyle in 1935, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Nyle
Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 354 spots since 2024 (#2,637 → #2,991)
  • 995 spots since 2020 (#1,996 → #2,991)
  • 426 spots since 2015 (#2,565 → #2,991)
Rise & fade · boys
21 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1914
  • Peaked 1935 at #1,422 (23 births)
  • Births halved by 1941, 6 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 19,768
  • Highest: 1 in 19,768 boys born in 2016 were named Nyle (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 41,660 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #1,422 in 1935, was only 1 in 45,276 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 25.1% of all boys named Nyle (546) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s49#2,543 (1916)#2,945
1920s134#1,569 (1928)#2,389
1930s150#1,422 (1935)#1,903
1940s109#1,852 (1945)#2,334
1950s128#1,974 (1959)#2,251
1960s65#2,409 (1961)#3,115
1970s62#3,344 (1972)#4,445
1980s104#2,902 (1989)#4,237
1990s203#2,923 (1995)#3,366
2000s265#2,881 (2006)#3,650
2010s546#1,655 (2016)#2,503
2020s358#1,943 (2021)#2,376

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.

Nyle in 1935

boys
#1,422
23 births · 1 in 45,276 boys

Top boys' names in 1935

  1. #1Robert56,527
  2. #2James55,005
  3. #3John47,509
  4. #4William40,204
  5. #5Richard33,946
  6. #6Charles29,983
  7. #7Donald29,674
  8. #8George18,564
  9. #9Thomas17,684
  10. #10Joseph17,181
  11. #1,422Nyle23
More about 1935

boys

1,041,351 boys got a published name in 1935; 1 in 45,276 of them was named Nyle, which outranked 65.7% of the 4,146 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Nyle
  1. #1,390Sanders24
  2. #1,390Willy24
  3. #1,390Windell24
  4. #1,422Nyle23
  5. #1,422Alec23
  6. #1,422Archibald23
  7. #1,422Bedford23
  8. #1,453Arne22
  9. #1,453Blas22
  10. #1,453Burke22

Tied with 30 names at #1,422; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1934
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,371Darwyn#2,121 → #750
  2. ↑ 678Landon#1,608 → #930
  3. ↑ 678Stafford#1,658 → #980
  4. ↑ 666Lance#1,658 → #992
  5. ↑ 492Delwin#1,461 → #969
Fallers
  1. ↓ 534Estel#792 → #1,326
  2. ↓ 493Gustav#897 → #1,390
  3. ↓ 381Florian#845 → #1,226
  4. ↓ 353Laurie#942 → #1,295
  5. ↓ 342Valentin#931 → #1,273

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1935 →