Niles
Niles was given to 54 boys in 2025, #2,506 among boys’ names; 4,455 Americans have been recorded with it since 1897 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,190 Americans named Niles and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (72% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 16 and 52.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Niles by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Niles?
#2,506 among boys’ names, 2025
Niles rose from #2,554 in 2015 to #2,506 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 25.6 to 31.6 per million.
80 babies in 1998, the peak
Niles peaked in 1998, when 80 boys were given it, #1,425 among boys’ names. The 54 births of 2025 are 68% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 54 | #2,506 | 31.6 |
| 2024 | 39 | #3,144 | 22.6 |
| 2023 | 53 | #2,530 | 31.0 |
| 2022 | 59 | #2,397 | 33.8 |
| 2021 | 64 | #2,211 | 36.6 |
| 2020 | 70 | #2,040 | 40.6 |
| 2019 | 64 | #2,206 | 35.7 |
| 2018 | 49 | #2,602 | 27.0 |
| 2017 | 65 | #2,124 | 35.1 |
| 2016 | 54 | #2,404 | 28.5 |
Every recorded year (117)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 49 | #2,554 | 25.6 |
| 2014 | 53 | #2,417 | 27.6 |
| 2013 | 39 | #2,934 | 20.6 |
| 2012 | 45 | #2,703 | 23.7 |
| 2011 | 41 | #2,885 | 21.6 |
| 2010 | 29 | #3,688 | 15.1 |
| 2009 | 47 | #2,646 | 23.7 |
| 2008 | 37 | #3,147 | 18.1 |
| 2007 | 50 | #2,527 | 24.1 |
| 2006 | 38 | #2,966 | 18.5 |
| 2005 | 36 | #2,939 | 18.0 |
| 2004 | 43 | #2,555 | 21.7 |
| 2003 | 41 | #2,536 | 20.8 |
| 2002 | 41 | #2,456 | 21.1 |
| 2001 | 54 | #1,997 | 27.8 |
| 2000 | 64 | #1,750 | 32.6 |
| 1999 | 68 | #1,596 | 35.4 |
| 1998 | 80 | #1,425 | 41.9 |
| 1997 | 56 | #1,743 | 29.7 |
| 1996 | 49 | #1,859 | 25.9 |
| 1995 | 70 | #1,424 | 36.8 |
| 1994 | 57 | #1,622 | 29.5 |
| 1993 | 42 | #1,953 | 21.4 |
| 1992 | 43 | #1,897 | 21.5 |
| 1991 | 48 | #1,709 | 23.8 |
| 1990 | 45 | #1,768 | 21.9 |
| 1989 | 53 | #1,538 | 26.5 |
| 1988 | 45 | #1,605 | 23.5 |
| 1987 | 47 | #1,520 | 25.2 |
| 1986 | 46 | #1,485 | 25.0 |
| 1985 | 45 | #1,497 | 24.3 |
| 1984 | 31 | #1,824 | 17.2 |
| 1983 | 48 | #1,355 | 26.8 |
| 1982 | 33 | #1,760 | 18.2 |
| 1981 | 38 | #1,590 | 21.2 |
| 1980 | 37 | #1,613 | 20.7 |
| 1979 | 42 | #1,456 | 24.4 |
| 1978 | 38 | #1,525 | 23.1 |
| 1977 | 23 | #2,108 | 14.0 |
| 1976 | 33 | #1,636 | 21.0 |
| 1975 | 45 | #1,295 | 28.8 |
| 1974 | 38 | #1,403 | 24.2 |
| 1973 | 35 | #1,450 | 22.5 |
| 1972 | 18 | #2,219 | 11.1 |
| 1971 | 24 | #1,850 | 13.6 |
| 1970 | 21 | #1,973 | 11.3 |
| 1969 | 30 | #1,484 | 16.8 |
| 1968 | 14 | #2,269 | 8.1 |
| 1967 | 21 | #1,739 | 12.0 |
| 1966 | 22 | #1,674 | 12.3 |
| 1965 | 28 | #1,472 | 15.1 |
| 1964 | 29 | #1,478 | 14.6 |
| 1963 | 28 | #1,500 | 13.8 |
| 1962 | 31 | #1,416 | 15.0 |
| 1961 | 34 | #1,381 | 16.0 |
| 1960 | 35 | #1,353 | 16.4 |
| 1959 | 29 | #1,487 | 13.6 |
| 1958 | 31 | #1,415 | 14.6 |
| 1957 | 30 | #1,444 | 13.9 |
| 1956 | 38 | #1,244 | 18.0 |
| 1955 | 42 | #1,159 | 20.4 |
| 1954 | 32 | #1,354 | 15.7 |
| 1953 | 42 | #1,149 | 21.3 |
| 1952 | 44 | #1,106 | 22.6 |
| 1951 | 45 | #1,079 | 23.9 |
| 1950 | 57 | #913 | 31.8 |
| 1949 | 47 | #1,020 | 26.5 |
| 1948 | 55 | #940 | 31.3 |
| 1947 | 44 | #1,104 | 24.0 |
| 1946 | 37 | #1,152 | 22.8 |
| 1945 | 36 | #1,098 | 26.7 |
| 1944 | 44 | #982 | 32.3 |
| 1943 | 46 | #991 | 32.2 |
| 1942 | 55 | #897 | 39.8 |
| 1941 | 35 | #1,123 | 28.5 |
| 1940 | 35 | #1,124 | 30.2 |
| 1939 | 28 | #1,263 | 25.3 |
| 1938 | 33 | #1,142 | 29.8 |
| 1937 | 33 | #1,159 | 30.9 |
| 1936 | 26 | #1,314 | 25.1 |
| 1935 | 27 | #1,318 | 25.9 |
| 1934 | 30 | #1,232 | 29.1 |
| 1933 | 30 | #1,220 | 30.3 |
| 1932 | 29 | #1,283 | 27.8 |
| 1931 | 43 | #1,023 | 41.4 |
| 1930 | 29 | #1,360 | 26.4 |
| 1929 | 42 | #1,072 | 39.0 |
| 1928 | 35 | #1,221 | 31.6 |
| 1927 | 27 | #1,456 | 24.0 |
| 1926 | 22 | #1,644 | 19.8 |
| 1925 | 25 | #1,524 | 22.4 |
| 1924 | 24 | #1,614 | 21.2 |
| 1923 | 25 | #1,539 | 22.8 |
| 1922 | 24 | #1,573 | 22.1 |
| 1921 | 31 | #1,354 | 28.1 |
| 1920 | 27 | #1,450 | 25.4 |
| 1919 | 23 | #1,565 | 23.5 |
| 1918 | 29 | #1,333 | 28.6 |
| 1917 | 38 | #1,088 | 41.1 |
| 1916 | 26 | #1,364 | 29.2 |
| 1915 | 16 | #1,859 | 18.9 |
| 1914 | 15 | #1,660 | 22.9 |
| 1913 | 23 | #1,067 | 44.9 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,194 | 16.3 |
| 1910 | 6 | #1,535 | 30.9 |
| 1900 | 5 | #1,441 | 33.2 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,180 | 44.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Niles a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Niles has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 117 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Niles: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Niles, and how old are they?
3,190 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 72% of the 4,455 Americans ever recorded as Niles. The median Niles alive today is 32 years old; half are between 16 and 52.
The 2020 Census counted 2,956 people named Niles (30 women and girls, 2,926 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,067 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 131 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 470 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 417 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 704 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 756 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 707 |
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 Niles born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington | 5 | #1,107 | 0.1× |
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 Niles 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 9,934 babies since 1880, Niles is the most given (45% of them). In 2025 it was given to 54 of their 113 babies (48%), again the 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 Niles
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 Niles and names like it
- Compare Niles and NilsBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sNiles peaked in 1998.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Niles since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Niles.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Niles alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.