About the name Niles
Niles belongs to the English & American tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Niles first appears in Social Security records in 1897. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #897 in 1942, and in 2024 38 babies received the name — 4,400 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.