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Cyle

Cyle reached its high-water mark in 1990 at number 1,042, and has been recorded 1,995 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 8,243rd. About 1,900 Cyles are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 32.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Cyle boys named Cyle

By the numbers

Total US births
1,995
Estimated living today
1,900
Median age today
32
Peak year
1990
Best rank
1,042nd
Rank in 2025
8,243rd
First recorded
1960
Girls / boys
15 / 1,980

How old the living Cyles are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,995 babies given the name since 1960, about 1,900 are alive — 96 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1993 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 Cyles

People named Cyle with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Cyle is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Cyle is most concentrated in Michigan (3.1×), Florida (2.7×), California (2.7×), Illinois (2.5×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1990

The most popular boys’ names the year Cyle peaked:

All the names of 1990

Cyle elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales boys Cyle 53 1,411th

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

Cyle 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.