Nyles
- #4,249 for boys in 2025, 24 births
- Peak · boys
- 1998 · 37 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 934since 1929
Nyles over time
boys
Rank among boys' names. Nyles has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Hover or use arrow keys to read values by year; click or press Enter to open that year.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,249 | 24 |
| 2024 | #3,335 | 35 |
| 2023 | #4,220 | 25 |
| 2022 | #3,617 | 31 |
| 2021 | #3,121 | 38 |
| 2020 | #4,141 | 24 |
| 2019 | #3,794 | 28 |
| 2018 | #3,171 | 36 |
| 2017 | #3,440 | 32 |
| 2016 | #3,990 | 26 |
| 2015 | #3,982 | 26 |
| 2014 | #4,538 | 21 |
| 2013 | #5,923 | 14 |
| 2012 | #4,251 | 23 |
| 2011 | #5,433 | 16 |
| 2010 | #4,848 | 19 |
| 2009 | #4,429 | 22 |
| 2008 | #5,249 | 17 |
| 2007 | #5,210 | 17 |
| 2006 | #5,072 | 17 |
| 2005 | #4,824 | 17 |
| 2004 | #6,138 | 12 |
| 2003 | #4,114 | 20 |
| 2002 | #3,554 | 24 |
| 2001 | #3,143 | 28 |
| 2000 | #3,536 | 23 |
| 1999 | #3,279 | 24 |
| 1998 | #2,349 | 37 |
| 1997 | #3,738 | 18 |
| 1996 | #3,293 | 21 |
| 1995 | #3,303 | 20 |
| 1994 | #3,911 | 16 |
| 1993 | #4,020 | 15 |
| 1992 | #4,564 | 12 |
| 1991 | #5,521 | 9 |
| 1990 | #4,167 | 13 |
| 1989 | #5,615 | 8 |
| 1988 | #4,450 | 10 |
| 1987 | — | |
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| 1985 | #6,523 | 5 |
| 1984 | — | |
| 1983 | #5,484 | 6 |
| 1982 | #6,385 | 5 |
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| 1978 | #5,772 | 5 |
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| 1975 | #3,941 | 8 |
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| 1971 | #4,907 | 5 |
| 1970 | #3,521 | 8 |
| 1969 | #4,404 | 5 |
| 1968 | #4,136 | 5 |
| 1967 | — | |
| 1966 | #3,948 | 5 |
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| 1960 | #4,038 | 5 |
| 1959 | #3,988 | 5 |
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| 1954 | #3,827 | 5 |
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| 1948 | #3,668 | 5 |
| 1947 | #3,733 | 5 |
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| 1943 | #3,231 | 6 |
| 1942 | #3,212 | 6 |
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| 1939 | #3,480 | 5 |
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| 1937 | #2,905 | 7 |
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| 1930 | #4,001 | 5 |
| 1929 | #3,959 | 5 |
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First appearance
1929
The first year at least five boys were named Nyles! It came in at #3,959, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1929–1936, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Nyles is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Nyles in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
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Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 914 spots since 2024 (#3,335 → #4,249)
- 108 spots since 2020 (#4,141 → #4,249)
- 267 spots since 2015 (#3,982 → #4,249)
Rise & fade · boys
69 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1929
- Peaked 1998 at #2,349 (37 births)
- Births halved by 2004, 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 46,039
- Highest: 1 in 46,039 boys born in 2021 were named Nyles (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 71,170 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,349 in 1998, was only 1 in 51,659 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 25.8% of all boys named Nyles (241) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 5 | #3,959 (1929) | #3,959 |
| 1930s | 17 | #2,905 (1937) | #3,462 |
| 1940s | 22 | #3,212 (1942) | #3,461 |
| 1950s | 10 | #3,827 (1954) | #3,908 |
| 1960s | 20 | #3,948 (1966) | #4,132 |
| 1970s | 26 | #3,521 (1970) | #4,535 |
| 1980s | 34 | #4,450 (1988) | #5,691 |
| 1990s | 185 | #2,349 (1998) | #3,815 |
| 2000s | 197 | #3,143 (2001) | #4,527 |
| 2010s | 241 | #3,171 (2018) | #4,337 |
| 2020s | 177 | #3,121 (2021) | #3,781 |
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.
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