girls:
44 births since 1928
#5672 (1st percentile)
boys:
2.1k births since 1914
#2751 (40th percentile)
overall:
2.1k births since 1914
#5661 (27th percentile)
The name Nyle is the #5,661 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,126 recorded births since 1914. This represents the 26.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 26.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,751 (40.0% percentile) for all time with 2,082 births since 1914. For girls, it ranks #5,672 (0.7% percentile) for all time with 44 births since 1928.
Nyle first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1914 (1914 for boys and 1928 for girls). Birth data for Nyle is available in 107 out of the 110 years between 1914 and 2023 (107 years for boys and 8 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 Nyle has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Nyle reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 9.9% percentile (ranked #830) with 47 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 47 births per million (ranked 9.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Nyle ranks #858 for boys (5.8% percentile) with 32 births per million, which is 66.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Nyle reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #955) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1928, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Nyle".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Nyle. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Nyle is pronounced as nail, which has 1 syllables.
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