Niles
Niles is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 38 births. Its best rank was 897th, in 1942.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 380.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 199880 births
- Best rank
- #897in 1942
- Since 1897
- 4,400people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,400 boys have been named Niles in the United States since 1897, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1998, with 80 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1980, and the 1990s alone account for 13%. It has spent 5 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Niles | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 5 | |
| 1900s | 5 | |
| 1910s | 183 | |
| 1920s | 282 | |
| 1930s | 308 | |
| 1940s | 434 | |
| 1950s | 390 | |
| 1960s | 272 | |
| 1970s | 317 | |
| 1980s | 423 | |
| 1990s | 558 | |
| 2000s | 451 | |
| 2010s | 488 | |
| 2020s | 284 |
In 1998, its biggest year
Niles was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1998 were Michael, Jacob, Matthew, Joshua and Christopher. See all of 1998.
Names that rose and fell with Niles
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Pascualpeak 1993
- Marcelinopeak 2006
- Dentonpeak 1994
- Linopeak 2003
- Blaspeak 1988
- Ciropeak 2024
- Landispeak 2006
- Sabinopeak 2001
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.