Myleah
Myleah was given to 15 girls in 2025, #7,385 among girls’ names; 505 Americans have been recorded with it since 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Myleah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Myleah?
#7,385 among girls’ names, 2025
Myleah fell from #5,412 in 2015 to #7,385 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 14.0 to 9.3 per million.
39 babies in 2009, the peak
Myleah peaked in 2009, when 39 girls were given it, #3,996 among girls’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 38% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,385 | 9.3 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,368 | 6.8 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,529 | 9.3 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,363 | 7.9 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,324 | 7.9 |
| 2020 | 16 | #7,122 | 9.9 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,547 | 6.6 |
| 2018 | 14 | #8,033 | 8.2 |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,454 | 11.0 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,596 | 10.7 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 25 | #5,412 | 14.0 |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,370 | 11.2 |
| 2013 | 30 | #4,722 | 17.1 |
| 2012 | 21 | #6,269 | 11.9 |
| 2011 | 23 | #5,879 | 13.1 |
| 2010 | 25 | #5,541 | 14.1 |
| 2009 | 39 | #3,996 | 21.2 |
| 2008 | 21 | #6,494 | 11.1 |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,308 | 9.4 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,763 | 10.0 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,925 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,136 | 10.9 |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,197 | 5.5 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,292 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,207 | 8.3 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,436 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,255 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,848 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,561 | 5.2 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,323 | 5.1 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,834 | 3.4 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,831 | 3.3 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,174 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Myleah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Myleah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 33 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Myleah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Myleah, and how old are they?
An estimated 501 Americans named Myleah 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 386 people named Myleah (381 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 423 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% 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 37,620 babies since 1880, Myleah is the fifth most given (1.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 2,198 babies (<1%), again the fifth 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 Myleah
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 Myleah and names like it
- Compare Myleah and MylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMyleah peaked in 2009.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Myleah since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Myleah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Myleah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.