Miley
Miley was given to 900 girls in 2025, #338 among girls’ names; 15,779 Americans have been recorded with it since 1889 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 15,500 Americans named Miley and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 7 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Miley by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Miley mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Miley is “a female given name.” Its etymology gives the sense “smiley” (from).
Popularised as a female name by American pop singer Miley Ray Cyrus (nicknamed Miley from “smiley”).
/ˈmaɪli/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Miley?
#338 among girls’ names, 2025
Miley rose from #1,017 in 2015 to #338 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.15 to 0.56 per 1,000.
2,652 babies in 2008, the peak
Miley peaked in 2008, when 2,652 girls were given it, #129 among girls’ names. The 900 births of 2025 are 34% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 900 | #338 | 0.56 |
| 2024 | 815 | #388 | 0.50 |
| 2023 | 684 | #449 | 0.43 |
| 2022 | 421 | #702 | 0.26 |
| 2021 | 381 | #748 | 0.23 |
| 2020 | 369 | #743 | 0.23 |
| 2019 | 367 | #764 | 0.22 |
| 2018 | 378 | #738 | 0.22 |
| 2017 | 292 | #917 | 0.17 |
| 2016 | 255 | #1,038 | 0.14 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 263 | #1,017 | 0.15 |
| 2014 | 356 | #788 | 0.20 |
| 2013 | 803 | #387 | 0.46 |
| 2012 | 930 | #342 | 0.53 |
| 2011 | 991 | #317 | 0.56 |
| 2010 | 1,442 | #215 | 0.81 |
| 2009 | 1,737 | #189 | 0.95 |
| 2008 | 2,652 | #129 | 1.4 |
| 2007 | 1,233 | #279 | 0.64 |
| 2006 | 198 | #1,221 | 0.10 |
| 2005 | 26 | #5,060 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,416 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 27 | #4,767 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,144 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,154 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,448 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 9 | #10,049 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,791 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,183 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,379 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,858 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,772 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,760 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,407 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,790 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,895 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,457 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,232 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,461 | under 0.01 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,716 | under 0.01 |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,206 | under 0.01 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,368 | under 0.01 |
| 1926 | 10 | #3,204 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,304 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,780 | 0.01 |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,734 | 0.01 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,586 | 0.02 |
| 1889 | 5 | #1,416 | 0.03 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Miley a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Miley has been given almost only to girls: 75 boys in 56 years of records.
Girls and boys named Miley: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Miley, and how old are they?
15,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 15,779 Americans ever recorded as Miley. The median Miley alive today is 15 years old; half are between 7 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 10,711 people named Miley (10,590 women and girls, 121 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 12,108 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 3 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 20 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 6 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 35 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 9,230 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6,250 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Miley born?
The states with the most babies named Miley are Texas, Florida and California, with 23% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 69 | #474 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 67 | #283 | 0.9× |
| California | 62 | #536 | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 57 | #193 | 1.2× |
| New York | 40 | #438 | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 34 | #323 | 0.9× |
| Indiana | 32 | #221 | 1.3× |
| Illinois | 30 | #349 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 30 | #366 | 0.7× |
| Missouri | 29 | #216 | 1.2× |
Where Miley is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Miley is most over-represented in Kentucky: since 1910 it was given 1.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Miley with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 114,120 babies since 1880, Miley is the second most given (14% of them). In 2025 it was given to 900 of their 6,119 babies (15%), again the second 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 Miley
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 Miley and names like it
- Compare Miley and MilaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMiley peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Miley since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Miley.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Miley alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.