Niles
The boy's name Niles has been in the national records since 1897, with 4,455 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 2,480th. About 3,200 Nileses are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 31.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Niles
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 4,455
- Estimated living today
- 3,200
- Median age today
- 31
- Peak year
- 1998
- Best rank
- 1,418th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,480th
- First recorded
- 1897
How old the living Nileses are
born that year still alive today
Of the 4,455 babies given the name since 1897, about 3,200 are alive — 72 in every hundred. Roughly 900 of them are children and 530 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1994 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Niless
- Niles Eldredge (born 1943)American biologist
People named Niles with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Niles is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Niles is most concentrated in California (3.3×), New York (3.2×), Pennsylvania (2.2×), Ohio (1.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1998
The most popular boys’ names the year Niles peaked:
Niles elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Niles | 61 | 1,383rd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Niles against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.