Nyles
Nyles was given to 24 boys in 2025, #4,346 among boys’ names; 934 Americans have been recorded with it since 1929 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nyles by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nyles?
#4,346 among boys’ names, 2025
Nyles fell from #4,045 in 2015 to #4,346 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 13.6 to 14.1 per million.
38 babies in 2021, the peak
Nyles peaked in 2021, when 38 boys were given it, #3,158 among boys’ names. The 24 births of 2025 are 63% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24 | #4,346 | 14.1 |
| 2024 | 35 | #3,372 | 20.3 |
| 2023 | 25 | #4,299 | 14.6 |
| 2022 | 31 | #3,667 | 17.8 |
| 2021 | 38 | #3,158 | 21.7 |
| 2020 | 24 | #4,234 | 13.9 |
| 2019 | 28 | #3,865 | 15.6 |
| 2018 | 36 | #3,214 | 19.8 |
| 2017 | 32 | #3,492 | 17.3 |
| 2016 | 26 | #4,065 | 13.7 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 26 | #4,045 | 13.6 |
| 2014 | 21 | #4,652 | 10.9 |
| 2013 | 14 | #6,148 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 23 | #4,346 | 12.1 |
| 2011 | 16 | #5,599 | 8.4 |
| 2010 | 19 | #4,980 | 9.9 |
| 2009 | 22 | #4,547 | 11.1 |
| 2008 | 17 | #5,417 | 8.3 |
| 2007 | 17 | #5,363 | 8.2 |
| 2006 | 17 | #5,238 | 8.3 |
| 2005 | 17 | #4,964 | 8.5 |
| 2004 | 12 | #6,404 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 20 | #4,224 | 10.1 |
| 2002 | 24 | #3,632 | 12.4 |
| 2001 | 28 | #3,198 | 14.4 |
| 2000 | 23 | #3,604 | 11.7 |
| 1999 | 24 | #3,336 | 12.5 |
| 1998 | 37 | #2,376 | 19.4 |
| 1997 | 18 | #3,837 | 9.5 |
| 1996 | 21 | #3,364 | 11.1 |
| 1995 | 20 | #3,397 | 10.5 |
| 1994 | 16 | #4,032 | 8.3 |
| 1993 | 15 | #4,165 | 7.6 |
| 1992 | 12 | #4,776 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 9 | #5,803 | 4.5 |
| 1990 | 13 | #4,335 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 8 | #6,053 | 4.0 |
| 1988 | 10 | #4,678 | 5.2 |
| 1985 | 5 | #7,279 | 2.7 |
| 1983 | 6 | #6,009 | 3.3 |
| 1982 | 5 | #7,064 | 2.8 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,490 | 3.0 |
| 1975 | 8 | #4,192 | 5.1 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,437 | 2.8 |
| 1970 | 8 | #3,737 | 4.3 |
| 1969 | 5 | #4,830 | 2.8 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,566 | 2.9 |
| 1966 | 5 | #4,360 | 2.8 |
| 1960 | 5 | #4,437 | 2.3 |
| 1959 | 5 | #4,398 | 2.3 |
| 1954 | 5 | #4,203 | 2.5 |
| 1948 | 5 | #4,036 | 2.8 |
| 1947 | 5 | #4,110 | 2.7 |
| 1943 | 6 | #3,454 | 4.2 |
| 1942 | 6 | #3,457 | 4.3 |
| 1939 | 5 | #3,831 | 4.5 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,098 | 6.6 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,391 | 4.6 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,378 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Nyles a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nyles has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 59 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nyles: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nyles, and how old are they?
An estimated 879 Americans named Nyles and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 8 and 28. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 701 people named Nyles (9 women and girls, 692 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 722 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Nyles?
Nyles is a less common spelling of Niles: SSA has recorded 934 Nyles and 4,455 Niles since 1880.
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 8,472 babies since 1880, Nyles is the third most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 24 of their 98 babies (24%), the second most given that year.
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 Nyles
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 Nyles and names like it
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