Meaning not yet researched.
Nyle: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 41 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,444 in 1935.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,444 in 1935; #3,026 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Nyle in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,026 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1935, at #1,444.
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Nyle: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 41 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,444 in 1935 · most boys in one year: 96 (2016).
In 2025, 41 US boys were named Nyle, making it the 3,026th most common boys’ name of the year, down 370 places from #2,656 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 50 boys named Nyle in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,444, reached in 1935. The most boys given the name in a single year was 96, in 2016. For comparison, it was #2,592 in 2015 and #2,402 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nyle in 109 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 7 babies. In all, 2,217 US babies have been given the name, 2.0% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 551 babies named Nyle.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 645 US boys were named Nyle; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 96. In 2025 that was about 1 in 41,660 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Nell (27,710 babies since 1880), Nelle (5,794 babies since 1880) and Nile (4,066 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Nyle 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 | — | — | 41 | #3,026 |
| 2024 | — | — | 50 | #2,656 |
| 2023 | — | — | 58 | #2,380 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,954 | 61 | #2,342 |
| 2021 | 5 | #17,037 | 77 | #1,952 |
| 2020 | — | — | 71 | #2,013 |
| 2019 | — | — | 58 | #2,354 |
| 2018 | — | — | 66 | #2,133 |
| 2017 | — | — | 67 | #2,083 |
| 2016 | — | — | 96 | #1,660 |
| 2015 | — | — | 48 | #2,592 |
| 2014 | — | — | 49 | #2,534 |
| 2013 | 5 | #18,569 | 44 | #2,698 |
| 2012 | — | — | 54 | #2,375 |
| 2011 | — | — | 32 | #3,411 |
| 2010 | — | — | 32 | #3,423 |
| 2009 | — | — | 33 | #3,384 |
| 2008 | — | — | 27 | #3,896 |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,753 | 31 | #3,489 |
| 2006 | — | — | 39 | #2,916 |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,454 | 21 | #4,295 |
| 2004 | — | — | 28 | #3,430 |
| 2003 | — | — | 18 | #4,569 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,407 | 27 | #3,318 |
| 2001 | — | — | 21 | #3,941 |
| 2000 | — | — | 20 | #4,025 |
| 1999 | — | — | 28 | #3,002 |
| 1998 | — | — | 17 | #4,143 |
| 1997 | — | — | 24 | #3,131 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,187 | 19 | #3,639 |
| 1995 | — | — | 24 | #2,999 |
| 1994 | — | — | 19 | #3,558 |
| 1993 | — | — | 16 | #3,961 |
| 1992 | — | — | 18 | #3,565 |
| 1991 | — | — | 20 | #3,194 |
| 1990 | — | — | 18 | #3,419 |
| 1989 | — | — | 21 | #2,968 |
| 1988 | — | — | 16 | #3,308 |
| 1987 | — | — | 9 | #4,848 |
| 1986 | — | — | 10 | #4,379 |
| 1985 | — | — | 10 | #4,256 |
| 1984 | — | — | 8 | #4,853 |
| 1983 | — | — | 8 | #4,789 |
| 1982 | — | — | 7 | #5,443 |
| 1981 | — | — | 7 | #5,326 |
| 1980 | — | — | 8 | #4,825 |
| 1979 | — | — | 5 | #6,758 |
| 1978 | — | — | 9 | #4,069 |
| 1977 | — | — | 5 | #6,558 |
| 1976 | — | — | 7 | #4,776 |
| 1974 | — | — | 7 | #4,487 |
| 1973 | — | — | 8 | #3,962 |
| 1972 | — | — | 9 | #3,530 |
| 1971 | — | — | 6 | #4,761 |
| 1970 | — | — | 6 | #4,578 |
| 1968 | — | — | 9 | #3,032 |
| 1967 | — | — | 7 | #3,458 |
| 1965 | — | — | 5 | #4,284 |
| 1964 | — | — | 7 | #3,515 |
| 1963 | — | — | 7 | #3,561 |
| 1962 | — | — | 11 | #2,630 |
| 1961 | — | — | 12 | #2,503 |
| 1960 | — | — | 7 | #3,558 |
| 1959 | — | — | 17 | #2,022 |
| 1958 | — | — | 14 | #2,235 |
| 1957 | — | — | 12 | #2,458 |
| 1956 | — | — | 10 | #2,742 |
| 1955 | — | — | 14 | #2,199 |
| 1954 | — | — | 14 | #2,185 |
| 1953 | — | — | 12 | #2,365 |
| 1952 | — | — | 12 | #2,344 |
| 1951 | — | — | 12 | #2,336 |
| 1950 | — | — | 11 | #2,402 |
| 1949 | — | — | 8 | #2,953 |
| 1948 | — | — | 11 | #2,408 |
| 1947 | — | — | 10 | #2,617 |
| 1946 | — | — | 12 | #2,236 |
| 1945 | — | — | 14 | #1,905 |
| 1944 | — | — | 10 | #2,423 |
| 1943 | — | — | 15 | #1,969 |
| 1942 | — | — | 6 | #3,457 |
| 1941 | — | — | 11 | #2,295 |
| 1940 | — | — | 12 | #2,155 |
| 1939 | — | — | 13 | #2,025 |
| 1938 | — | — | 17 | #1,727 |
| 1937 | — | — | 14 | #1,969 |
| 1936 | — | — | 18 | #1,625 |
| 1935 | — | — | 23 | #1,444 |
| 1934 | — | — | 11 | #2,357 |
| 1933 | — | — | 14 | #1,974 |
| 1932 | — | — | 12 | #2,280 |
| 1931 | — | — | 12 | #2,296 |
| 1930 | — | — | 16 | #1,940 |
| 1929 | — | — | 13 | #2,287 |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,579 | 23 | #1,596 |
| 1927 | — | — | 10 | #2,849 |
| 1926 | — | — | 12 | #2,520 |
| 1925 | — | — | 10 | #2,880 |
| 1924 | — | — | 17 | #2,028 |
| 1923 | — | — | 15 | #2,201 |
| 1922 | — | — | 7 | #3,771 |
| 1921 | — | — | 13 | #2,470 |
| 1920 | — | — | 14 | #2,306 |
| 1919 | — | — | 7 | #3,647 |
| 1918 | — | — | 10 | #2,830 |
| 1917 | — | — | 10 | #2,668 |
| 1916 | — | — | 10 | #2,679 |
| 1915 | — | — | 5 | #4,224 |
| 1914 | — | — | 7 | #2,832 |
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).