Cyle
Last seen for girls in 1989 at #12,362 · #8,243 for boys in 2025, 9 births
Given to boys 99.2% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1990 · 103 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,980since 1960
Cyle over time
Rank among boys' names. Cyle has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #8,243 | 9 | |
| 2024 | — | — | ||
| 2023 | — | — | ||
| 2022 | — | #12,330 | 5 | |
| 2021 | — | — | ||
| 2020 | — | #12,022 | 5 | |
| 2019 | — | — | ||
| 2018 | — | #8,819 | 8 | |
| 2017 | — | #7,095 | 11 | |
| 2016 | — | #8,146 | 9 | |
| 2015 | — | #10,644 | 6 | |
| 2014 | — | #6,632 | 12 | |
| 2013 | — | #5,404 | 16 | |
| 2012 | — | #4,533 | 21 | |
| 2011 | — | #5,200 | 17 | |
| 2010 | — | #5,251 | 17 | |
| 2009 | — | #3,551 | 30 | |
| 2008 | — | #3,421 | 32 | |
| 2007 | — | #4,127 | 24 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,979 | 37 | |
| 2005 | — | #3,091 | 33 | |
| 2004 | — | #4,602 | 18 | |
| 2003 | — | #2,674 | 37 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,974 | 56 | |
| 2001 | — | #2,562 | 37 | |
| 2000 | — | #2,049 | 49 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,671 | 63 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,719 | 59 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,599 | 63 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,616 | 60 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,559 | 60 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,192 | 93 | |
| 1993 | — | #1,179 | 90 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,084 | 103 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,103 | 98 | |
| 1990 | — | #1,042 | 103 | |
| 1989 | #12,362 | 5 | #1,045 | 98 |
| 1988 | — | #1,239 | 68 | |
| 1987 | #11,325 | 5 | #1,195 | 65 |
| 1986 | #10,912 | 5 | #1,299 | 56 |
| 1985 | — | #1,057 | 76 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,690 | 34 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,490 | 41 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,539 | 40 | |
| 1981 | — | #2,779 | 16 | |
| 1980 | — | #3,256 | 13 | |
| 1979 | — | #2,379 | 20 | |
| 1978 | — | #2,473 | 18 | |
| 1977 | — | #3,037 | 13 | |
| 1976 | — | #3,095 | 12 | |
| 1975 | — | #3,078 | 12 | |
| 1974 | — | #3,318 | 10 | |
| 1973 | — | #4,054 | 7 | |
| 1972 | — | #2,659 | 13 | |
| 1971 | — | #3,146 | 10 | |
| 1970 | — | #2,891 | 11 | |
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| 1968 | — | #3,673 | 6 | |
| 1967 | — | #2,611 | 10 | |
| 1966 | — | #2,627 | 10 | |
| 1965 | — | #3,930 | 5 | |
| 1964 | — | #3,601 | 6 | |
| 1963 | — | #3,044 | 8 | |
| 1962 | — | #3,305 | 7 | |
| 1961 | — | #3,097 | 8 | |
| 1960 | — | #3,665 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Cyle! It came in at #3,665, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1969, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Cyle is popular in 1960
No state had 5 or more boys named Cyle in 1960, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Cyle
- 3,779 spots since 2020 (#12,022 → #8,243)
- 2,401 spots since 2015 (#10,644 → #8,243)
- Debuted 1960
- Peaked 1990 at #1,042 (103 births)
- Births halved by 2000, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 19,392 boys born in 1992 were named Cyle (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 189,786 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,042 in 1990, was only 1 in 19,942 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 40.0% of all boys named Cyle (792) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 66 | #2,611 (1967) | #3,284 |
| 1970s | 126 | #2,379 (1979) | #3,013 |
| 1980s | 507 | #1,045 (1989) | #1,659 |
| 1990s | 792 | #1,042 (1990) | #1,376 |
| 2000s | 353 | #1,974 (2002) | #3,103 |
| 2010s | 117 | #4,533 (2012) | #6,858 |
| 2020s | 19 | #8,243 (2025) | #10,865 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Cyle in 1960
Top boys' names in 1960
More about 1960
boys
2,132,320 boys got a published name in 1960; 1 in 355,387 of them was named Cyle, which outranked 20.3% of the 4,598 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 29.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,337Ygnacio7
- #3,337Yisroel7
- #3,337Zollie7
- #3,665Cyle6
- #3,665Abbott6
- #3,665Abby6
- #3,665Abdon6
- #4,038Abelino5
- #4,038Abron5
- #4,038Acy5
Tied with 372 names at #3,665; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.