Meaning not yet researched.
Niles: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 54 in 2025. Its best rank was #897 in 1942.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #897 in 1942; #2,506 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Niles in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,506 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1942, at #897.
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Niles: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 54 boys in 2025. Peak: #897 in 1942 · most boys in one year: 80 (1998).
In 2025, 54 US boys were named Niles, making it the 2,506th most common boys’ name of the year, up 640 places from #3,146 in 2024. That is 15 more than the 39 boys named Niles in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #897, reached in 1942. The most boys given the name in a single year was 80, in 1998. For comparison, it was #2,555 in 2015 and #914 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Niles in 117 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1897 with 5 babies. In all, 4,455 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 558 babies named Niles.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 571 US boys were named Niles; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 70. In 2025 that was about 1 in 31,631 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Niles ranked highest in Washington in 2025, at #1,107 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Nile (4,066 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Nyles, Nilesh and Neilesh 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Nyles (934), Nilesh (178), Neilesh (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 Niles in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 50 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington | 5 | #1,107 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 54 | #2,506 |
| 2024 | — | — | 39 | #3,146 |
| 2023 | — | — | 53 | #2,531 |
| 2022 | — | — | 59 | #2,398 |
| 2021 | — | — | 64 | #2,212 |
| 2020 | — | — | 70 | #2,040 |
| 2019 | — | — | 64 | #2,207 |
| 2018 | — | — | 49 | #2,603 |
| 2017 | — | — | 65 | #2,125 |
| 2016 | — | — | 54 | #2,404 |
| 2015 | — | — | 49 | #2,555 |
| 2014 | — | — | 53 | #2,419 |
| 2013 | — | — | 39 | #2,936 |
| 2012 | — | — | 45 | #2,704 |
| 2011 | — | — | 41 | #2,886 |
| 2010 | — | — | 29 | #3,689 |
| 2009 | — | — | 47 | #2,647 |
| 2008 | — | — | 37 | #3,149 |
| 2007 | — | — | 50 | #2,527 |
| 2006 | — | — | 38 | #2,967 |
| 2005 | — | — | 36 | #2,943 |
| 2004 | — | — | 43 | #2,559 |
| 2003 | — | — | 41 | #2,540 |
| 2002 | — | — | 41 | #2,460 |
| 2001 | — | — | 54 | #2,001 |
| 2000 | — | — | 64 | #1,754 |
| 1999 | — | — | 68 | #1,599 |
| 1998 | — | — | 80 | #1,428 |
| 1997 | — | — | 56 | #1,746 |
| 1996 | — | — | 49 | #1,863 |
| 1995 | — | — | 70 | #1,429 |
| 1994 | — | — | 57 | #1,627 |
| 1993 | — | — | 42 | #1,958 |
| 1992 | — | — | 43 | #1,902 |
| 1991 | — | — | 48 | #1,715 |
| 1990 | — | — | 45 | #1,773 |
| 1989 | — | — | 53 | #1,543 |
| 1988 | — | — | 45 | #1,610 |
| 1987 | — | — | 47 | #1,522 |
| 1986 | — | — | 46 | #1,486 |
| 1985 | — | — | 45 | #1,498 |
| 1984 | — | — | 31 | #1,825 |
| 1983 | — | — | 48 | #1,356 |
| 1982 | — | — | 33 | #1,761 |
| 1981 | — | — | 38 | #1,591 |
| 1980 | — | — | 37 | #1,613 |
| 1979 | — | — | 42 | #1,456 |
| 1978 | — | — | 38 | #1,525 |
| 1977 | — | — | 23 | #2,108 |
| 1976 | — | — | 33 | #1,637 |
| 1975 | — | — | 45 | #1,295 |
| 1974 | — | — | 38 | #1,403 |
| 1973 | — | — | 35 | #1,450 |
| 1972 | — | — | 18 | #2,219 |
| 1971 | — | — | 24 | #1,851 |
| 1970 | — | — | 21 | #1,974 |
| 1969 | — | — | 30 | #1,484 |
| 1968 | — | — | 14 | #2,270 |
| 1967 | — | — | 21 | #1,740 |
| 1966 | — | — | 22 | #1,675 |
| 1965 | — | — | 28 | #1,473 |
| 1964 | — | — | 29 | #1,479 |
| 1963 | — | — | 28 | #1,501 |
| 1962 | — | — | 31 | #1,417 |
| 1961 | — | — | 34 | #1,382 |
| 1960 | — | — | 35 | #1,354 |
| 1959 | — | — | 29 | #1,488 |
| 1958 | — | — | 31 | #1,416 |
| 1957 | — | — | 30 | #1,445 |
| 1956 | — | — | 38 | #1,245 |
| 1955 | — | — | 42 | #1,160 |
| 1954 | — | — | 32 | #1,355 |
| 1953 | — | — | 42 | #1,150 |
| 1952 | — | — | 44 | #1,107 |
| 1951 | — | — | 45 | #1,080 |
| 1950 | — | — | 57 | #914 |
| 1949 | — | — | 47 | #1,021 |
| 1948 | — | — | 55 | #941 |
| 1947 | — | — | 44 | #1,105 |
| 1946 | — | — | 37 | #1,153 |
| 1945 | — | — | 36 | #1,099 |
| 1944 | — | — | 44 | #982 |
| 1943 | — | — | 46 | #991 |
| 1942 | — | — | 55 | #897 |
| 1941 | — | — | 35 | #1,123 |
| 1940 | — | — | 35 | #1,124 |
| 1939 | — | — | 28 | #1,263 |
| 1938 | — | — | 33 | #1,142 |
| 1937 | — | — | 33 | #1,159 |
| 1936 | — | — | 26 | #1,314 |
| 1935 | — | — | 27 | #1,318 |
| 1934 | — | — | 30 | #1,232 |
| 1933 | — | — | 30 | #1,220 |
| 1932 | — | — | 29 | #1,283 |
| 1931 | — | — | 43 | #1,023 |
| 1930 | — | — | 29 | #1,360 |
| 1929 | — | — | 42 | #1,072 |
| 1928 | — | — | 35 | #1,221 |
| 1927 | — | — | 27 | #1,456 |
| 1926 | — | — | 22 | #1,644 |
| 1925 | — | — | 25 | #1,524 |
| 1924 | — | — | 24 | #1,614 |
| 1923 | — | — | 25 | #1,539 |
| 1922 | — | — | 24 | #1,573 |
| 1921 | — | — | 31 | #1,354 |
| 1920 | — | — | 27 | #1,450 |
| 1919 | — | — | 23 | #1,566 |
| 1918 | — | — | 29 | #1,334 |
| 1917 | — | — | 38 | #1,088 |
| 1916 | — | — | 26 | #1,364 |
| 1915 | — | — | 16 | #1,860 |
| 1914 | — | — | 15 | #1,661 |
| 1913 | — | — | 23 | #1,067 |
| 1912 | — | — | 7 | #2,195 |
| 1910 | — | — | 6 | #1,536 |
| 1900 | — | — | 5 | #1,443 |
| 1897 | — | — | 5 | #1,181 |
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).