Cyler
#8,391 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Cyler has been given to 660 babies in the U.S. since 1985. In 2025 it ranked #8,391 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 45 recorded.
Babies named Cyler, 2025
1 in 368,000
Cyler over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Cyler?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 368,000
- 9 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 190,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #8,391
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 255,323 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Cyler sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cyler. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Cylers were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Cyler was born before 2009 — so the typical Cyler is around 16 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 40.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 82.3%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 655
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 40.6% of all recorded uses (266).
Is Cyler rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- +774
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,268
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −4,864
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.29×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 20.0%
- Peak was 2009 (45)
- Years since peak
- 16
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.8% average annual change
Spellings of Cyler
Cyler is not the most common spelling — Tyler is, with 30.4% against Cyler's 0.03%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Cyler is used
Across 1910–2025, Cyler was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,523,129 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Illinois1 in —
- 3North Carolina1 in —
- 4Texas1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Cyler has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Cyler by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Cyler
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Cyler
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.