girls:
15 births since 1986
#5701 (0th percentile)
boys:
2k births since 1960
#2831 (38th percentile)
overall:
2k births since 1960
#5785 (25th percentile)
The name Cyle is the #5,785 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,986 recorded births since 1960. This represents the 25.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 25.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,831 (38.2% percentile) for all time with 1,971 births since 1960. For girls, it ranks #5,701 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 15 births since 1986.
Cyle first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1960 (1960 for boys and 1986 for girls). Birth data for Cyle is available in 60 out of the 63 years between 1960 and 2022 (60 years for boys and 3 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 Cyle has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.2% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Cyle reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 12.8% percentile (ranked #660) with 47 births per million. The name was most common in 1992, with 49 births per million (ranked 12.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
For girls, Cyle reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #821) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1986, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1989.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Cyle".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Cyle. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 71.4% confident that Cyle is pronounced as sail, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kail, at 19.0% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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