Cyler
Cyler was given to 9 boys in 2025, #8,391 among boys’ names; 660 Americans have been recorded with it since 1985 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cyler by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cyler?
#8,391 among boys’ names, 2025
Cyler fell from #3,527 in 2015 to #8,391 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 16.2 to 5.3 per million.
45 babies in 2009, the peak
Cyler peaked in 2009, when 45 boys were given it, #2,713 among boys’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,391 | 5.3 |
| 2024 | 8 | #9,165 | 4.6 |
| 2023 | 9 | #8,387 | 5.3 |
| 2022 | 10 | #7,877 | 5.7 |
| 2021 | 14 | #6,087 | 8.0 |
| 2020 | 11 | #7,123 | 6.4 |
| 2019 | 18 | #5,196 | 10.0 |
| 2018 | 18 | #5,141 | 9.9 |
| 2017 | 20 | #4,773 | 10.8 |
| 2016 | 23 | #4,352 | 12.1 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 31 | #3,527 | 16.2 |
| 2014 | 11 | #7,156 | 5.7 |
| 2013 | 23 | #4,205 | 12.2 |
| 2012 | 26 | #3,914 | 13.7 |
| 2011 | 23 | #4,250 | 12.1 |
| 2010 | 32 | #3,385 | 16.7 |
| 2009 | 45 | #2,713 | 22.7 |
| 2008 | 41 | #2,891 | 20.1 |
| 2007 | 36 | #3,143 | 17.3 |
| 2006 | 33 | #3,234 | 16.1 |
| 2005 | 22 | #4,076 | 11.0 |
| 2004 | 33 | #3,029 | 16.6 |
| 2003 | 12 | #5,936 | 6.1 |
| 2002 | 11 | #6,154 | 5.7 |
| 2001 | 20 | #3,993 | 10.3 |
| 2000 | 13 | #5,337 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 14 | #4,809 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 11 | #5,540 | 5.8 |
| 1997 | 5 | #9,534 | 2.7 |
| 1996 | 13 | #4,654 | 6.9 |
| 1995 | 13 | #4,558 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 11 | #5,161 | 5.7 |
| 1993 | 6 | #7,807 | 3.1 |
| 1992 | 9 | #5,732 | 4.5 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,451 | 3.0 |
| 1990 | 5 | #8,363 | 2.4 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,122 | 2.5 |
| 1985 | 5 | #6,734 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Cyler a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cyler has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 38 years of records.
Girls and boys named Cyler: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cyler, and how old are they?
An estimated 650 Americans named Cyler and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 11 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 591 people named Cyler (26 women and girls, 565 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 595 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 46,446 babies since 1880, Cyler is the fourth most given (1.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 940 babies (<1%), again the fourth 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 Cyler
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 Cyler and names like it
- Compare Cyler and KylerBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sCyler peaked in 2009.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cyler since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Cyler.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Cyler alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.