Mileah
Mileah was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,590 among girls’ names; 432 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mileah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mileah?
#11,590 among girls’ names, 2025
Mileah fell from #7,870 in 2015 to #11,590 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 8.4 to 5.0 per million.
28 babies in 2011, the peak
Mileah peaked in 2011, when 28 girls were given it, #5,010 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 29% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,590 | 5.0 |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,148 | 9.9 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,594 | 3.7 |
| 2022 | 7 | #13,142 | 4.3 |
| 2021 | 16 | #7,158 | 9.8 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,832 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,592 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,985 | 7.1 |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,721 | 10.4 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,269 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 15 | #7,870 | 8.4 |
| 2014 | 24 | #5,575 | 13.4 |
| 2013 | 28 | #4,978 | 16.0 |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,501 | 11.4 |
| 2011 | 28 | #5,010 | 15.9 |
| 2010 | 25 | #5,539 | 14.1 |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,239 | 12.0 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,295 | 9.5 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,595 | 5.7 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,737 | 8.4 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,910 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,375 | 4.4 |
| 2003 | 9 | #11,011 | 4.9 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,801 | 5.0 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,696 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,404 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,231 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,768 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,548 | 5.2 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,327 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,963 | 6.2 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,975 | 4.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mileah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mileah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mileah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mileah, and how old are they?
An estimated 428 Americans named Mileah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 9 and 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 352 people named Mileah (350 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 366 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 113,318 babies since 1880, Mileah is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 6,380 babies (<1%), again the eighth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Mileah
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Mileah and names like it
- Compare Mileah and MilaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMileah peaked in 2011.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mileah since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Mileah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Mileah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.