girls:
10 births since 2004
#5706 (0th percentile)
boys:
733 births since 1924
#3854 (16th percentile)
overall:
743 births since 1924
#6996 (10th percentile)
The name Cuyler is the #6,996 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 743 recorded births since 1924. This represents the 9.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 9.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,854 (15.9% percentile) for all time with 733 births since 1924. For girls, it ranks #5,706 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 10 births since 2004.
Cuyler first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1924 (1924 for boys and 2004 for girls). Birth data for Cuyler is available in 51 out of the 100 years between 1924 and 2023 (51 years for boys and 2 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Cuyler has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Cuyler reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 3.1% percentile (ranked #873) with 16 births per million. The name was most common in 2009, with 16 births per million (ranked 3.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Cuyler ranks #900 for boys (1.2% percentile) with 9 births per million, which is 56.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Cuyler reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #937) with 2 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 2 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2009.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Cuyler".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Cuyler is pronounced as KAI-ler, which has 2 syllables.
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