Giles
Giles is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 19 births. Its best rank was 367th, in 1881.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 190.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 191886 births
- Best rank
- #367in 1881
- Since 1880
- 4,719people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,719 boys have been named Giles in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 86 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1944, and the 1920s alone account for 15%. It has spent 66 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Giles | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 153 | |
| 1890s | 93 | |
| 1900s | 103 | |
| 1910s | 508 | |
| 1920s | 685 | |
| 1930s | 595 | |
| 1940s | 476 | |
| 1950s | 490 | |
| 1960s | 342 | |
| 1970s | 280 | |
| 1980s | 257 | |
| 1990s | 243 | |
| 2000s | 210 | |
| 2010s | 207 | |
| 2020s | 77 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Giles was the 671st most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1918 were John, William, James, Robert and Charles. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Giles
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Corneliouspeak 1921
- Lewispeak 1921
- Georgepeak 1921
- Thorntonpeak 1921
- Wileypeak 1921
- Frankpeak 1918
- Irapeak 1947
- Napoleonpeak 1926
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.