Nyle
Nyle was given to 41 boys in 2025, #3,025 among boys’ names; 2,217 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,750 Americans named Nyle and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (79% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 8 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nyle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nyle?
#3,025 among boys’ names, 2025
Nyle fell from #2,591 in 2015 to #3,025 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 25.0 to 24.0 per million.
96 babies in 2016, the peak
Nyle peaked in 2016, when 96 boys were given it, #1,660 among boys’ names. The 41 births of 2025 are 43% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 41 | #3,025 | 24.0 |
| 2024 | 50 | #2,656 | 29.0 |
| 2023 | 58 | #2,379 | 33.9 |
| 2022 | 61 | #2,341 | 34.9 |
| 2021 | 77 | #1,951 | 44.0 |
| 2020 | 71 | #2,013 | 41.1 |
| 2019 | 58 | #2,353 | 32.3 |
| 2018 | 66 | #2,132 | 36.3 |
| 2017 | 67 | #2,083 | 36.2 |
| 2016 | 96 | #1,660 | 50.6 |
Every recorded year (109)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 48 | #2,591 | 25.0 |
| 2014 | 49 | #2,532 | 25.5 |
| 2013 | 44 | #2,696 | 23.3 |
| 2012 | 54 | #2,374 | 28.5 |
| 2011 | 32 | #3,410 | 16.8 |
| 2010 | 32 | #3,422 | 16.7 |
| 2009 | 33 | #3,382 | 16.6 |
| 2008 | 27 | #3,893 | 13.2 |
| 2007 | 31 | #3,487 | 14.9 |
| 2006 | 39 | #2,915 | 19.0 |
| 2005 | 21 | #4,290 | 10.5 |
| 2004 | 28 | #3,426 | 14.1 |
| 2003 | 18 | #4,564 | 9.1 |
| 2002 | 27 | #3,314 | 13.9 |
| 2001 | 21 | #3,935 | 10.8 |
| 2000 | 20 | #4,019 | 10.2 |
| 1999 | 28 | #2,998 | 14.6 |
| 1998 | 17 | #4,139 | 8.9 |
| 1997 | 24 | #3,126 | 12.7 |
| 1996 | 19 | #3,633 | 10.0 |
| 1995 | 24 | #2,994 | 12.6 |
| 1994 | 19 | #3,552 | 9.8 |
| 1993 | 16 | #3,955 | 8.2 |
| 1992 | 18 | #3,559 | 9.0 |
| 1991 | 20 | #3,188 | 9.9 |
| 1990 | 18 | #3,413 | 8.8 |
| 1989 | 21 | #2,962 | 10.5 |
| 1988 | 16 | #3,303 | 8.4 |
| 1987 | 9 | #4,841 | 4.8 |
| 1986 | 10 | #4,375 | 5.4 |
| 1985 | 10 | #4,251 | 5.4 |
| 1984 | 8 | #4,849 | 4.4 |
| 1983 | 8 | #4,787 | 4.5 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,441 | 3.9 |
| 1981 | 7 | #5,324 | 3.9 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,823 | 4.5 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,756 | 2.9 |
| 1978 | 9 | #4,067 | 5.5 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,556 | 3.0 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,774 | 4.5 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,485 | 4.5 |
| 1973 | 8 | #3,960 | 5.1 |
| 1972 | 9 | #3,528 | 5.6 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,759 | 3.4 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,576 | 3.2 |
| 1968 | 9 | #3,031 | 5.2 |
| 1967 | 7 | #3,457 | 4.0 |
| 1965 | 5 | #4,283 | 2.7 |
| 1964 | 7 | #3,514 | 3.5 |
| 1963 | 7 | #3,560 | 3.4 |
| 1962 | 11 | #2,629 | 5.3 |
| 1961 | 12 | #2,502 | 5.6 |
| 1960 | 7 | #3,557 | 3.3 |
| 1959 | 17 | #2,021 | 8.0 |
| 1958 | 14 | #2,234 | 6.6 |
| 1957 | 12 | #2,457 | 5.6 |
| 1956 | 10 | #2,741 | 4.7 |
| 1955 | 14 | #2,198 | 6.8 |
| 1954 | 14 | #2,184 | 6.9 |
| 1953 | 12 | #2,364 | 6.1 |
| 1952 | 12 | #2,343 | 6.2 |
| 1951 | 12 | #2,335 | 6.4 |
| 1950 | 11 | #2,401 | 6.1 |
| 1949 | 8 | #2,952 | 4.5 |
| 1948 | 11 | #2,407 | 6.3 |
| 1947 | 10 | #2,616 | 5.5 |
| 1946 | 12 | #2,235 | 7.4 |
| 1945 | 14 | #1,904 | 10.4 |
| 1944 | 10 | #2,422 | 7.3 |
| 1943 | 15 | #1,968 | 10.5 |
| 1942 | 6 | #3,456 | 4.3 |
| 1941 | 11 | #2,295 | 9.0 |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,155 | 10.4 |
| 1939 | 13 | #2,025 | 11.7 |
| 1938 | 17 | #1,727 | 15.3 |
| 1937 | 14 | #1,969 | 13.1 |
| 1936 | 18 | #1,625 | 17.4 |
| 1935 | 23 | #1,444 | 22.1 |
| 1934 | 11 | #2,357 | 10.7 |
| 1933 | 14 | #1,974 | 14.1 |
| 1932 | 12 | #2,280 | 11.5 |
| 1931 | 12 | #2,295 | 11.5 |
| 1930 | 16 | #1,940 | 14.6 |
| 1929 | 13 | #2,286 | 12.1 |
| 1928 | 23 | #1,596 | 20.8 |
| 1927 | 10 | #2,848 | 8.9 |
| 1926 | 12 | #2,519 | 10.8 |
| 1925 | 10 | #2,878 | 9.0 |
| 1924 | 17 | #2,028 | 15.0 |
| 1923 | 15 | #2,200 | 13.7 |
| 1922 | 7 | #3,769 | 6.4 |
| 1921 | 13 | #2,469 | 11.8 |
| 1920 | 14 | #2,305 | 13.2 |
| 1919 | 7 | #3,646 | 7.1 |
| 1918 | 10 | #2,829 | 9.9 |
| 1917 | 10 | #2,667 | 10.8 |
| 1916 | 10 | #2,678 | 11.2 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,222 | 5.9 |
| 1914 | 7 | #2,831 | 10.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Nyle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,217 Americans recorded as Nyle, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 41 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Nyle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nyle, and how old are they?
1,750 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 79% of the 2,217 Americans ever recorded as Nyle. The median Nyle alive today is 15 years old; half are between 8 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 1,519 people named Nyle (136 women and girls, 1,383 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,468 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 45 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 140 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 81 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 224 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 460 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 798 |
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 Nyle born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 6 | #2,484 | 0.5× |
| California | 5 | #2,705 | 0.6× |
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 Nyle 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 6,835 babies since 1880, Nyle is the second most given (32% of them). In 2025 it was given to 41 of their 195 babies (21%), again the second 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 Nyle
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 Nyle and names like it
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- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nyle since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Nyle.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Nyle alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with NMost given first.