Meaning not yet researched.
Cyle: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 9 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,044 in 1990.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,044 in 1990; #8,394 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Cyle in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,394 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1990, at #1,044.
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Cyle: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 9 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,044 in 1990 · most boys in one year: 103 (1992).
In 2025, 9 US boys were named Cyle, making it the 8,394th most common boys’ name of the year. Its best rank for boys was #1,044, reached in 1990. The most boys given the name in a single year was 103, in 1992. For comparison, it was #10,959 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cyle in 61 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1960 with 6 babies. In all, 1,995 US babies have been given the name, 0.8% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 792 babies named Cyle.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 47 US boys were named Cyle; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 11. In 2025 that was about 1 in 189,786 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Cele and Syl are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Cele (129), Syl (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Cyle in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 9 | #8,394 |
| 2022 | — | — | 5 | #12,724 |
| 2020 | — | — | 5 | #12,429 |
| 2018 | — | — | 8 | #8,995 |
| 2017 | — | — | 11 | #7,195 |
| 2016 | — | — | 9 | #8,276 |
| 2015 | — | — | 6 | #10,959 |
| 2014 | — | — | 12 | #6,720 |
| 2013 | — | — | 16 | #5,438 |
| 2012 | — | — | 21 | #4,569 |
| 2011 | — | — | 17 | #5,244 |
| 2010 | — | — | 17 | #5,293 |
| 2009 | — | — | 30 | #3,568 |
| 2008 | — | — | 32 | #3,431 |
| 2007 | — | — | 24 | #4,142 |
| 2006 | — | — | 37 | #2,991 |
| 2005 | — | — | 33 | #3,100 |
| 2004 | — | — | 18 | #4,635 |
| 2003 | — | — | 37 | #2,682 |
| 2002 | — | — | 56 | #1,978 |
| 2001 | — | — | 37 | #2,575 |
| 2000 | — | — | 49 | #2,057 |
| 1999 | — | — | 63 | #1,672 |
| 1998 | — | — | 59 | #1,724 |
| 1997 | — | — | 63 | #1,604 |
| 1996 | — | — | 60 | #1,618 |
| 1995 | — | — | 60 | #1,563 |
| 1994 | — | — | 93 | #1,194 |
| 1993 | — | — | 90 | #1,179 |
| 1992 | — | — | 103 | #1,084 |
| 1991 | — | — | 98 | #1,106 |
| 1990 | — | — | 103 | #1,044 |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,815 | 98 | #1,045 |
| 1988 | — | — | 68 | #1,240 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,690 | 65 | #1,197 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,322 | 56 | #1,301 |
| 1985 | — | — | 76 | #1,058 |
| 1984 | — | — | 34 | #1,700 |
| 1983 | — | — | 41 | #1,494 |
| 1982 | — | — | 40 | #1,545 |
| 1981 | — | — | 16 | #2,799 |
| 1980 | — | — | 13 | #3,294 |
| 1979 | — | — | 20 | #2,397 |
| 1978 | — | — | 18 | #2,497 |
| 1977 | — | — | 13 | #3,071 |
| 1976 | — | — | 12 | #3,131 |
| 1975 | — | — | 12 | #3,108 |
| 1974 | — | — | 10 | #3,370 |
| 1973 | — | — | 7 | #4,147 |
| 1972 | — | — | 13 | #2,689 |
| 1971 | — | — | 10 | #3,189 |
| 1970 | — | — | 11 | #2,927 |
| 1968 | — | — | 6 | #3,772 |
| 1967 | — | — | 10 | #2,636 |
| 1966 | — | — | 10 | #2,661 |
| 1965 | — | — | 5 | #4,012 |
| 1964 | — | — | 6 | #3,683 |
| 1963 | — | — | 8 | #3,097 |
| 1962 | — | — | 7 | #3,372 |
| 1961 | — | — | 8 | #3,154 |
| 1960 | — | — | 6 | #3,741 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).