Zyler
Zyler was given to 59 boys in 2025, #2,362 among boys’ names; 1,455 Americans have been recorded with it since 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,440 Americans named Zyler and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 7 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zyler by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zyler?
#2,362 among boys’ names, 2025
Zyler fell from #1,656 in 2015 to #2,362 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 50.1 to 34.5 per million.
98 babies in 2013, the peak
Zyler peaked in 2013, when 98 boys were given it, #1,587 among boys’ names. The 59 births of 2025 are 60% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 59 | #2,362 | 34.5 |
| 2024 | 86 | #1,877 | 49.9 |
| 2023 | 54 | #2,508 | 31.6 |
| 2022 | 49 | #2,714 | 28.1 |
| 2021 | 38 | #3,178 | 21.7 |
| 2020 | 64 | #2,189 | 37.1 |
| 2019 | 54 | #2,489 | 30.1 |
| 2018 | 66 | #2,145 | 36.3 |
| 2017 | 73 | #1,976 | 39.4 |
| 2016 | 96 | #1,662 | 50.6 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 96 | #1,656 | 50.1 |
| 2014 | 98 | #1,607 | 51.0 |
| 2013 | 98 | #1,587 | 51.8 |
| 2012 | 78 | #1,880 | 41.1 |
| 2011 | 55 | #2,344 | 29.0 |
| 2010 | 55 | #2,352 | 28.7 |
| 2009 | 55 | #2,379 | 27.7 |
| 2008 | 52 | #2,465 | 25.5 |
| 2007 | 47 | #2,642 | 22.6 |
| 2006 | 50 | #2,475 | 24.3 |
| 2005 | 26 | #3,704 | 13.0 |
| 2004 | 23 | #3,999 | 11.6 |
| 2003 | 28 | #3,360 | 14.2 |
| 2002 | 14 | #5,387 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 15 | #5,134 | 7.7 |
| 2000 | 13 | #5,578 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 8 | #7,866 | 4.2 |
| 1996 | 5 | #10,529 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Zyler a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zyler has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zyler: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zyler, and how old are they?
1,440 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,455 Americans ever recorded as Zyler. The median Zyler alive today is 11 years old; half are between 7 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 972 people named Zyler (22 women and girls, 950 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,112 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 512 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 924 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,538 babies since 1880, Zyler is the most given (95% of them). In 2025 it was given to 59 of their 64 babies (92%), 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 Zyler
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 Zyler and names like it
- Compare Zyler and ZylarBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sZyler peaked in 2013.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zyler since 1910.
- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Zyler.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Zyler alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.