Cyle
Cyle was given to 9 boys in 2025, #8,390 among boys’ names; 1,995 Americans have been recorded with it since 1960 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,910 Americans named Cyle and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 26 and 39.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cyle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cyle?
#8,390 among boys’ names, 2025
Cyle rose from #10,953 in 2015 to #8,390 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 3.1 to 5.3 per million.
103 babies in 1989, the peak
Cyle peaked in 1989, when 103 babies were given it (98 boys, #1,041 among boys’ names). The 9 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,390 | 5.3 |
| 2022 | 5 | #12,718 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 5 | #12,422 | 2.9 |
| 2018 | 8 | #8,989 | 4.4 |
| 2017 | 11 | #7,191 | 5.9 |
| 2016 | 9 | #8,271 | 4.7 |
| 2015 | 6 | #10,953 | 3.1 |
| 2014 | 12 | #6,715 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 16 | #5,434 | 8.5 |
| 2012 | 21 | #4,565 | 11.1 |
Every recorded year (61)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 17 | #5,240 | 9.0 |
| 2010 | 17 | #5,290 | 8.9 |
| 2009 | 30 | #3,566 | 15.1 |
| 2008 | 32 | #3,428 | 15.7 |
| 2007 | 24 | #4,140 | 11.6 |
| 2006 | 37 | #2,990 | 18.0 |
| 2005 | 33 | #3,096 | 16.5 |
| 2004 | 18 | #4,630 | 9.1 |
| 2003 | 37 | #2,678 | 18.7 |
| 2002 | 56 | #1,974 | 28.8 |
| 2001 | 37 | #2,570 | 19.0 |
| 2000 | 49 | #2,053 | 24.9 |
| 1999 | 63 | #1,669 | 32.8 |
| 1998 | 59 | #1,721 | 30.9 |
| 1997 | 63 | #1,601 | 33.4 |
| 1996 | 60 | #1,615 | 31.7 |
| 1995 | 60 | #1,558 | 31.5 |
| 1994 | 93 | #1,190 | 48.1 |
| 1993 | 90 | #1,175 | 45.9 |
| 1992 | 103 | #1,080 | 51.6 |
| 1991 | 98 | #1,100 | 48.5 |
| 1990 | 103 | #1,040 | 50.1 |
| 1989 | 98 | #1,041 | 49.0 |
| 1988 | 68 | #1,237 | 35.5 |
| 1987 | 65 | #1,195 | 34.8 |
| 1986 | 56 | #1,300 | 30.4 |
| 1985 | 76 | #1,057 | 41.1 |
| 1984 | 34 | #1,699 | 18.8 |
| 1983 | 41 | #1,493 | 22.9 |
| 1982 | 40 | #1,544 | 22.0 |
| 1981 | 16 | #2,797 | 8.9 |
| 1980 | 13 | #3,293 | 7.3 |
| 1979 | 20 | #2,396 | 11.6 |
| 1978 | 18 | #2,496 | 11.0 |
| 1977 | 13 | #3,070 | 7.9 |
| 1976 | 12 | #3,129 | 7.6 |
| 1975 | 12 | #3,106 | 7.7 |
| 1974 | 10 | #3,368 | 6.4 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,145 | 4.5 |
| 1972 | 13 | #2,687 | 8.0 |
| 1971 | 10 | #3,187 | 5.7 |
| 1970 | 11 | #2,925 | 5.9 |
| 1968 | 6 | #3,771 | 3.5 |
| 1967 | 10 | #2,635 | 5.7 |
| 1966 | 10 | #2,660 | 5.6 |
| 1965 | 5 | #4,011 | 2.7 |
| 1964 | 6 | #3,682 | 3.0 |
| 1963 | 8 | #3,096 | 3.9 |
| 1962 | 7 | #3,371 | 3.4 |
| 1961 | 8 | #3,153 | 3.8 |
| 1960 | 6 | #3,740 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Cyle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cyle has been given almost only to boys: 15 girls in 61 years of records.
Girls and boys named Cyle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cyle, and how old are they?
1,910 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,995 Americans ever recorded as Cyle. The median Cyle alive today is 33 years old; half are between 26 and 39.
The 2020 Census counted 1,671 people named Cyle (46 women and girls, 1,625 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,914 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 27 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 152 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,060 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 582 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 80 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Cyle born?
The states with the most babies named Cyle are California, Illinois and Michigan, with 52% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 142 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 66 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 62 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 55 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Florida | 49 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New York | 45 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Texas | 29 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 23 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Indiana | 20 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Minnesota | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Cyle with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 503,628 babies since 1880, Cyle is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 1,426 babies (<1%), again the third most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Cyle
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Cyle and names like it
- Compare Cyle and KyleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sCyle peaked in 1989.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cyle since 1910.
- The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Cyle.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Cyle alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.