Niles

Niles is the 3,595th most common surname in the United States, shared by 9,667 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 30,900.

By the numbers

People: 9,667
Rank: 3,595th
How common: 1 in 30,900
Per 100,000: 3.2

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Niles described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 75.3%
Black, not Hispanic 14.9%
Hispanic or Latino 4.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Niles

Nathaniel Niles (1886–1932)American figure skater and tennis player
John Milton Niles (1787–1856)American politician

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

Surnames like Niles

Also a first name

Niles has been given to 4,455 American babies as a first name since 1897, peaking in 1998. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.