Mylah
Mylah was given to 486 girls in 2025, #605 among girls’ names; 6,544 Americans have been recorded with it since 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,500 Americans named Mylah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 11.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mylah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mylah?
#605 among girls’ names, 2025
Mylah rose from #1,044 in 2015 to #605 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.14 to 0.30 per 1,000.
789 babies in 2023, the peak
Mylah peaked in 2023, when 789 girls were given it, #389 among girls’ names. The 486 births of 2025 are 62% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 486 | #605 | 0.30 |
| 2024 | 552 | #550 | 0.34 |
| 2023 | 789 | #389 | 0.49 |
| 2022 | 720 | #437 | 0.44 |
| 2021 | 602 | #514 | 0.37 |
| 2020 | 365 | #748 | 0.23 |
| 2019 | 319 | #846 | 0.19 |
| 2018 | 322 | #843 | 0.19 |
| 2017 | 281 | #941 | 0.16 |
| 2016 | 225 | #1,129 | 0.13 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 255 | #1,044 | 0.14 |
| 2014 | 251 | #1,035 | 0.14 |
| 2013 | 230 | #1,078 | 0.13 |
| 2012 | 208 | #1,185 | 0.12 |
| 2011 | 194 | #1,236 | 0.11 |
| 2010 | 153 | #1,477 | 0.09 |
| 2009 | 117 | #1,836 | 0.06 |
| 2008 | 104 | #2,016 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 67 | #2,741 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 65 | #2,750 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 108 | #1,811 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 27 | #4,904 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 35 | #3,927 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,277 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,206 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,659 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,613 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,872 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,346 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,004 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mylah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mylah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mylah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mylah, and how old are they?
6,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 6,544 Americans ever recorded as Mylah. The median Mylah alive today is 6 years old; half are between 3 and 11.
The 2020 Census counted 2,549 people named Mylah (2,540 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,102 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,130 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5,370 |
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 Mylah born?
The states with the most babies named Mylah are California, Ohio and Texas, with 28% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 52 | #613 | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 38 | #295 | 1.5× |
| Texas | 34 | #873 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 29 | #612 | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 28 | #398 | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 22 | #402 | 1.2× |
| North Carolina | 19 | #575 | 0.8× |
| Wisconsin | 18 | #305 | 1.1× |
| New York | 16 | #967 | 0.7× |
| Arizona | 15 | #469 | 0.7× |
Where Mylah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Mylah is most over-represented in Ohio: since 1993 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 Mylah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Mylah?
Mylah is a less common spelling of Mila: SSA has recorded 6,544 Mylah and 84,577 Mila since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 123,475 babies since 1880, Mylah is the third most given (5.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 486 of their 7,042 babies (6.9%), again the third 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 Mylah
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 Mylah and names like it
- Compare Mylah and MilaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMylah peaked in 2023.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mylah since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Mylah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Mylah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.