Boys' name · since 1925
Lyles
Lyles has 33 recorded births since 1925 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1925 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #25,207 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- #12,194 of 13,930
- 2025 SSA year
- 33
- born since 1925
- 2020s
- peak decade
Lyles currently ranks #12194 among boys' names in America, with 33 babies recorded since 1925.
Lyles has 33 recorded births among boys since 1925, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #12194 as of the latest data, more common than 12% of boys, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1925 to 2025.
- #25,207 of 45,481 all-time among boys
- #12,194 of 13,930 2025 SSA year
- 33 born since 1925
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Lyles ranks #25,207 of 45,481 boys' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #12,194 of 13,930 among boys' names in 2025. 33 born since 1925, peaking in the 2020s.
- #25,207 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- #12,194 of 13,930
- 2025 SSA year
- 33
- born since 1925
- 2020s
- peak decade
Lyles's 33 recorded births place it above 44.37% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Lyles compares
33 12th percentile among 13,930 names currently given to boys
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked boys names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Lyles's all-time total is 91% below the median boys name, and Liam still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Lyles | Median boys name (Takari) | #1 boys name (Liam) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 33 | 369 | 358,536 |
| Peak-year births | 6 | 34 | 22,252 |
Lyles's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Lyles splits its recorded history at 2021: 52% of all births land in the more recent half, 48% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1950 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1925 peak of 6 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Lyles popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1925–2025
- Peak year (1925)
- 6
- Annual births at peak, across 101 years of records
Lyles by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (17 births, 52% of the file).
2020s was Lyles's strongest decade.
17 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 52% of all-time use.
Lyles births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1920s 6
1920s
6 births
- 1950s 5
1950s
5 births
- 1980s 5
1980s
5 births
- 2020s
2020s
17 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 17 births (52% of all-time use).
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1925–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Lyles draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.