Jiles
Jiles was given to 8 boys in 2025, #9,268 among boys’ names; 639 Americans have been recorded with it since 1892 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jiles by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jiles?
#9,268 among boys’ names, 2025
Jiles rose from #11,334 in 2015 to #9,268 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 3.1 to 4.7 per million.
19 babies in 1923, the peak
Jiles peaked in 1923, when 19 boys were given it, #1,840 among boys’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 42% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #9,268 | 4.7 |
| 2022 | 7 | #10,285 | 4.0 |
| 2021 | 8 | #9,218 | 4.6 |
| 2020 | 8 | #9,090 | 4.6 |
| 2018 | 6 | #11,411 | 3.3 |
| 2017 | 6 | #11,408 | 3.2 |
| 2016 | 7 | #10,171 | 3.7 |
| 2015 | 6 | #11,334 | 3.1 |
| 2014 | 8 | #9,173 | 4.2 |
| 2013 | 5 | #13,016 | 2.6 |
Every recorded year (83)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 8 | #9,247 | 4.2 |
| 2011 | 5 | #13,232 | 2.6 |
| 2010 | 5 | #13,188 | 2.6 |
| 2009 | 7 | #10,372 | 3.5 |
| 2008 | 10 | #7,967 | 4.9 |
| 2007 | 5 | #13,285 | 2.4 |
| 2004 | 9 | #7,834 | 4.5 |
| 1999 | 6 | #9,240 | 3.1 |
| 1998 | 5 | #10,381 | 2.6 |
| 1995 | 5 | #9,504 | 2.6 |
| 1992 | 5 | #9,041 | 2.5 |
| 1991 | 7 | #6,868 | 3.5 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,762 | 3.4 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,498 | 2.7 |
| 1986 | 8 | #5,080 | 4.3 |
| 1985 | 11 | #3,911 | 6.0 |
| 1984 | 9 | #4,363 | 5.0 |
| 1983 | 8 | #4,689 | 4.5 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,505 | 2.9 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,455 | 3.7 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,376 | 4.5 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,449 | 3.2 |
| 1968 | 7 | #3,511 | 4.0 |
| 1963 | 6 | #3,823 | 3.0 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,352 | 2.4 |
| 1959 | 5 | #4,270 | 2.3 |
| 1958 | 5 | #4,221 | 2.4 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,260 | 2.3 |
| 1955 | 11 | #2,493 | 5.3 |
| 1954 | 6 | #3,627 | 2.9 |
| 1953 | 5 | #4,072 | 2.5 |
| 1952 | 7 | #3,227 | 3.6 |
| 1951 | 6 | #3,544 | 3.2 |
| 1950 | 11 | #2,376 | 6.1 |
| 1949 | 5 | #3,958 | 2.8 |
| 1948 | 7 | #3,157 | 4.0 |
| 1947 | 6 | #3,540 | 3.3 |
| 1946 | 11 | #2,337 | 6.8 |
| 1945 | 5 | #3,541 | 3.7 |
| 1944 | 5 | #3,666 | 3.7 |
| 1943 | 5 | #3,786 | 3.5 |
| 1942 | 8 | #2,809 | 5.8 |
| 1941 | 8 | #2,764 | 6.5 |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,402 | 8.6 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,021 | 6.3 |
| 1937 | 9 | #2,581 | 8.4 |
| 1936 | 9 | #2,528 | 8.7 |
| 1935 | 13 | #2,086 | 12.5 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,140 | 6.8 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,147 | 7.1 |
| 1932 | 14 | #2,049 | 13.4 |
| 1930 | 6 | #3,797 | 5.5 |
| 1929 | 9 | #2,852 | 8.4 |
| 1928 | 13 | #2,330 | 11.7 |
| 1927 | 15 | #2,153 | 13.3 |
| 1926 | 13 | #2,360 | 11.7 |
| 1925 | 11 | #2,669 | 9.9 |
| 1924 | 12 | #2,553 | 10.6 |
| 1923 | 19 | #1,840 | 17.3 |
| 1922 | 11 | #2,711 | 10.1 |
| 1921 | 12 | #2,555 | 10.9 |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,078 | 8.5 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,477 | 5.1 |
| 1918 | 10 | #2,786 | 9.9 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,391 | 7.6 |
| 1916 | 11 | #2,466 | 12.4 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,224 | 8.2 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,045 | 9.8 |
| 1912 | 8 | #1,964 | 18.6 |
| 1905 | 8 | #964 | 60.5 |
| 1904 | 5 | #1,299 | 39.0 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,217 | 40.8 |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,019 | 49.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jiles a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jiles has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 83 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jiles: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jiles, and how old are they?
An estimated 302 Americans named Jiles and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (47% of everyone recorded); the median is 39 years old and half are between 14 and 67. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 336 people named Jiles (12 women and girls, 324 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 309 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% above 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 709 babies since 1880, Jiles is the most given (90% of them).
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 Jiles
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 Jiles and names like it
- Compare Jiles and JylesBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sJiles peaked in 1923.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jiles since 1910.
- The top names of 1923The year the most babies were named Jiles.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jiles alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.