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Xylus: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 11 in 2025. Its best rank was #7,074 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #7,074 in 2021; #7,655 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Xylus in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,655 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #7,074.
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Xylus: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 11 boys in 2025. Peak: #7,074 in 2021 · most boys in one year: 12 (2021).
In 2025, 11 US boys were named Xylus, making it the 7,655th most common boys’ name of the year, up 2,186 places from #9,841 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 8 boys named Xylus in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #7,074, reached in 2021. That year also had the most boys given the name: 12. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Xylus in 7 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2013 with 6 babies. In all, 54 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 38 babies named Xylus.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 48 US boys were named Xylus; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 12. In 2025 that was about 1 in 155,280 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
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Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
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).