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

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Peak · boys
1990 · 103 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
1,980
since 1960

Cyle over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Cyle has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201988peak #1,042, 1990boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#8,2439
2024
2023
2022#12,3305
2021
2020#12,0225
2019
2018#8,8198
2017#7,09511
2016#8,1469
2015#10,6446
2014#6,63212
2013#5,40416
2012#4,53321
2011#5,20017
2010#5,25117
2009#3,55130
2008#3,42132
2007#4,12724
2006#2,97937
2005#3,09133
2004#4,60218
2003#2,67437
2002#1,97456
2001#2,56237
2000#2,04949
1999#1,67163
1998#1,71959
1997#1,59963
1996#1,61660
1995#1,55960
1994#1,19293
1993#1,17990
1992#1,084103
1991#1,10398
1990#1,042103
1989#12,3625#1,04598
1988#1,23968
1987#11,3255#1,19565
1986#10,9125#1,29956
1985#1,05776
1984#1,69034
1983#1,49041
1982#1,53940
1981#2,77916
1980#3,25613
1979#2,37920
1978#2,47318
1977#3,03713
1976#3,09512
1975#3,07812
1974#3,31810
1973#4,0547
1972#2,65913
1971#3,14610
1970#2,89111
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1968#3,6736
1967#2,61110
1966#2,62710
1965#3,9305
1964#3,6016
1963#3,0448
1962#3,3057
1961#3,0978
1960#3,6656
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First appearance
1960

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.

See more about Cyle
Momentum · boys
Rising
  • 3,779 spots since 2020 (#12,022#8,243)
  • 2,401 spots since 2015 (#10,644#8,243)
Rise & fade · boys
30 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1960
  • Peaked 1990 at #1,042 (103 births)
  • Births halved by 2000, 10 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 19,392
  • 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
Era · boys
The 1990s
  • 40.0% of all boys named Cyle (792) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1960s66#2,611 (1967)#3,284
1970s126#2,379 (1979)#3,013
1980s507#1,045 (1989)#1,659
1990s792#1,042 (1990)#1,376
2000s353#1,974 (2002)#3,103
2010s117#4,533 (2012)#6,858
2020s19#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 1988

boys
#1,239
68 births · 1 in 28,151 boys

Top boys' names in 1988

  1. #1Michael64,171
  2. #2Christopher53,014
  3. #3Matthew45,876
  4. #4Joshua42,653
  5. #5Andrew35,745
  6. #6David35,329
  7. #7Justin35,055
  8. #8Daniel34,718
  9. #9James32,523
  10. #10Robert30,319
  11. #1,239Cyle68
More about 1988

boys

1,914,283 boys got a published name in 1988; 1 in 28,151 of them was named Cyle, which outranked 85.4% of the 8,495 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Cyle
  1. #1,223Tramaine69
  2. #1,223Tristian69
  3. #1,223Yehuda69
  4. #1,239Cyle68
  5. #1,239Arnoldo68
  6. #1,239Dameon68
  7. #1,239Dustan68
  8. #1,249Abdul67
  9. #1,249Edison67
  10. #1,249Harlan67

Tied with 9 names at #1,239; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1987
Risers
  1. 3,252Nico#4,239#987
  2. 1,245Ridge#2,215#970
  3. 668Colten#1,484#816
  4. 600Brantley#1,587#987
  5. 518Long#1,337#819
Fallers
  1. 362Cordaro#908#1,270
  2. 246Ramsey#884#1,130
  3. 241Yaakov#974#1,215
  4. 233Adrain#990#1,223
  5. 230Kiel#846#1,076

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1988