Stiles
Stiles was given to 70 boys in 2025, #2,105 among boys’ names; 949 Americans have been recorded with it since 1913 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Stiles by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Stiles?
#2,105 among boys’ names, 2025
Stiles rose from #2,758 in 2015 to #2,105 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 23.0 to 41.0 per million.
97 babies in 2024, the peak
Stiles peaked in 2024, when 97 boys were given it, #1,720 among boys’ names. The 70 births of 2025 are 72% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 70 | #2,105 | 41.0 |
| 2024 | 97 | #1,720 | 56.3 |
| 2023 | 73 | #2,058 | 42.7 |
| 2022 | 62 | #2,318 | 35.5 |
| 2021 | 69 | #2,106 | 39.4 |
| 2020 | 48 | #2,651 | 27.8 |
| 2019 | 52 | #2,550 | 29.0 |
| 2018 | 47 | #2,664 | 25.9 |
| 2017 | 51 | #2,526 | 27.6 |
| 2016 | 59 | #2,275 | 31.1 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 44 | #2,758 | 23.0 |
| 2014 | 42 | #2,837 | 21.9 |
| 2013 | 33 | #3,323 | 17.4 |
| 2012 | 12 | #6,975 | 6.3 |
| 2011 | 11 | #7,431 | 5.8 |
| 2010 | 7 | #10,595 | 3.6 |
| 2009 | 11 | #7,617 | 5.5 |
| 2008 | 8 | #9,737 | 3.9 |
| 2007 | 11 | #7,514 | 5.3 |
| 2006 | 7 | #10,500 | 3.4 |
| 2005 | 8 | #8,974 | 4.0 |
| 2004 | 6 | #11,162 | 3.0 |
| 2003 | 8 | #8,515 | 4.0 |
| 2001 | 14 | #5,352 | 7.2 |
| 1998 | 5 | #11,076 | 2.6 |
| 1997 | 5 | #10,598 | 2.7 |
| 1995 | 5 | #10,117 | 2.6 |
| 1994 | 5 | #10,054 | 2.6 |
| 1993 | 6 | #8,562 | 3.1 |
| 1991 | 5 | #9,440 | 2.5 |
| 1990 | 6 | #7,982 | 2.9 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,833 | 3.5 |
| 1988 | 7 | #6,327 | 3.7 |
| 1958 | 5 | #4,443 | 2.4 |
| 1942 | 5 | #3,983 | 3.6 |
| 1938 | 5 | #3,974 | 4.5 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,517 | 6.5 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,721 | 4.4 |
| 1924 | 11 | #2,803 | 9.7 |
| 1922 | 5 | #4,870 | 4.6 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,206 | 9.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Stiles a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Stiles has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Stiles: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Stiles, and how old are they?
An estimated 899 Americans named Stiles and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 3 and 12. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 540 people named Stiles (22 women and girls, 518 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 499 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% above 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,659 babies since 1880, Stiles is the most given (57% of them). In 2025 it was given to 70 of their 98 babies (71%), 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 Stiles
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.
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