Nye — boys' name

What the Data Says About Nye

The Social Security Administration has registered 17 babies named Nye between 2002 and 2017, spanning 16 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Nye currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2017. The name reached its historical peak in 2017, when 7 babies received it in a single year. Nye is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 5 additional births since 2020.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Nye performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 10 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Nye shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.

No etymological entry is currently available for Nye 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 17 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.