Niles — #3155 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Niles

The Social Security Administration has registered 4,400 babies named Niles between 1897 and 2024, spanning 128 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Niles currently holds the #3155 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1998, when 80 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Niles performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 558 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Niles shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 235 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Niles in 18 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Niles in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 4,400 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.