Myles
Myles was given to 3,511 boys in 2025, #100 among boys’ names; 64,837 Americans have been recorded with it since 1887 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 60,900 Americans named Myles and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 5 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Myles by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Myles mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Myles is “a male given name from the Germanic languages. Alternative spelling of Miles, a less common one.”
/ˈmaɪlz/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Myles?
#100 among boys’ names, 2025
Myles rose from #223 in 2015 to #100 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.91 to 2.1 per 1,000.
3,578 babies in 2024, the peak
Myles peaked in 2024, when 3,578 babies were given it (3,564 boys, #99 among boys’ names). The 3,529 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 99% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3,511 | #100 | 2.1 |
| 2024 | 3,564 | #99 | 2.1 |
| 2023 | 3,411 | #107 | 2.0 |
| 2022 | 3,359 | #112 | 1.9 |
| 2021 | 3,167 | #119 | 1.8 |
| 2020 | 2,963 | #124 | 1.7 |
| 2019 | 2,656 | #143 | 1.5 |
| 2018 | 2,103 | #193 | 1.2 |
| 2017 | 1,811 | #212 | 1.0 |
| 2016 | 1,699 | #229 | 0.90 |
Every recorded year (134)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,748 | #223 | 0.91 |
| 2014 | 1,670 | #226 | 0.87 |
| 2013 | 1,638 | #224 | 0.87 |
| 2012 | 1,620 | #221 | 0.85 |
| 2011 | 1,509 | #237 | 0.79 |
| 2010 | 1,356 | #254 | 0.71 |
| 2009 | 1,304 | #265 | 0.66 |
| 2008 | 1,309 | #265 | 0.64 |
| 2007 | 1,139 | #299 | 0.55 |
| 2006 | 1,051 | #311 | 0.51 |
| 2005 | 1,064 | #311 | 0.53 |
| 2004 | 1,075 | #296 | 0.54 |
| 2003 | 1,128 | #275 | 0.57 |
| 2002 | 970 | #301 | 0.50 |
| 2001 | 1,003 | #295 | 0.52 |
| 2000 | 1,044 | #290 | 0.53 |
| 1999 | 916 | #313 | 0.48 |
| 1998 | 931 | #304 | 0.49 |
| 1997 | 752 | #343 | 0.40 |
| 1996 | 652 | #366 | 0.34 |
| 1995 | 638 | #373 | 0.34 |
| 1994 | 712 | #347 | 0.37 |
| 1993 | 860 | #313 | 0.44 |
| 1992 | 585 | #391 | 0.29 |
| 1991 | 529 | #425 | 0.26 |
| 1990 | 520 | #427 | 0.25 |
| 1989 | 407 | #469 | 0.20 |
| 1988 | 385 | #464 | 0.20 |
| 1987 | 411 | #434 | 0.22 |
| 1986 | 382 | #440 | 0.21 |
| 1985 | 213 | #602 | 0.12 |
| 1984 | 162 | #681 | 0.09 |
| 1983 | 162 | #672 | 0.09 |
| 1982 | 153 | #705 | 0.08 |
| 1981 | 140 | #733 | 0.08 |
| 1980 | 112 | #835 | 0.06 |
| 1979 | 112 | #823 | 0.07 |
| 1978 | 105 | #838 | 0.06 |
| 1977 | 120 | #781 | 0.07 |
| 1976 | 95 | #859 | 0.06 |
| 1975 | 93 | #866 | 0.06 |
| 1974 | 75 | #945 | 0.05 |
| 1973 | 92 | #831 | 0.06 |
| 1972 | 87 | #865 | 0.05 |
| 1971 | 103 | #794 | 0.06 |
| 1970 | 88 | #858 | 0.05 |
| 1969 | 80 | #859 | 0.04 |
| 1968 | 85 | #807 | 0.05 |
| 1967 | 89 | #776 | 0.05 |
| 1966 | 83 | #803 | 0.05 |
| 1965 | 101 | #737 | 0.05 |
| 1964 | 112 | #726 | 0.06 |
| 1963 | 120 | #717 | 0.06 |
| 1962 | 115 | #718 | 0.06 |
| 1961 | 116 | #712 | 0.05 |
| 1960 | 116 | #723 | 0.05 |
| 1959 | 118 | #708 | 0.06 |
| 1958 | 100 | #738 | 0.05 |
| 1957 | 110 | #711 | 0.05 |
| 1956 | 121 | #684 | 0.06 |
| 1955 | 129 | #649 | 0.06 |
| 1954 | 105 | #710 | 0.05 |
| 1953 | 109 | #683 | 0.06 |
| 1952 | 122 | #635 | 0.06 |
| 1951 | 116 | #653 | 0.06 |
| 1950 | 110 | #666 | 0.06 |
| 1949 | 113 | #643 | 0.06 |
| 1948 | 112 | #639 | 0.06 |
| 1947 | 100 | #695 | 0.05 |
| 1946 | 80 | #736 | 0.05 |
| 1945 | 64 | #771 | 0.05 |
| 1944 | 74 | #726 | 0.05 |
| 1943 | 79 | #730 | 0.06 |
| 1942 | 79 | #726 | 0.06 |
| 1941 | 61 | #811 | 0.05 |
| 1940 | 66 | #766 | 0.06 |
| 1939 | 61 | #779 | 0.06 |
| 1938 | 75 | #707 | 0.07 |
| 1937 | 75 | #696 | 0.07 |
| 1936 | 71 | #712 | 0.07 |
| 1935 | 57 | #827 | 0.05 |
| 1934 | 66 | #760 | 0.06 |
| 1933 | 65 | #760 | 0.07 |
| 1932 | 59 | #833 | 0.06 |
| 1931 | 70 | #738 | 0.07 |
| 1930 | 70 | #769 | 0.06 |
| 1929 | 72 | #749 | 0.07 |
| 1928 | 81 | #706 | 0.07 |
| 1927 | 68 | #807 | 0.06 |
| 1926 | 67 | #809 | 0.06 |
| 1925 | 79 | #737 | 0.07 |
| 1924 | 93 | #675 | 0.08 |
| 1923 | 67 | #827 | 0.06 |
| 1922 | 79 | #746 | 0.07 |
| 1921 | 95 | #667 | 0.09 |
| 1920 | 71 | #799 | 0.07 |
| 1919 | 60 | #857 | 0.06 |
| 1918 | 80 | #707 | 0.08 |
| 1917 | 65 | #783 | 0.07 |
| 1916 | 52 | #880 | 0.06 |
| 1915 | 59 | #788 | 0.07 |
| 1914 | 53 | #719 | 0.08 |
| 1913 | 31 | #891 | 0.06 |
| 1912 | 30 | #813 | 0.07 |
| 1911 | 15 | #883 | 0.07 |
| 1910 | 20 | #668 | 0.10 |
| 1909 | 14 | #793 | 0.09 |
| 1908 | 7 | #1,182 | 0.05 |
| 1907 | 5 | #1,483 | 0.03 |
| 1906 | 10 | #835 | 0.08 |
| 1905 | 9 | #897 | 0.07 |
| 1904 | 7 | #1,033 | 0.05 |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,249 | 0.04 |
| 1902 | 9 | #842 | 0.07 |
| 1901 | 8 | #830 | 0.08 |
| 1900 | 13 | #721 | 0.09 |
| 1898 | 14 | #593 | 0.11 |
| 1896 | 7 | #948 | 0.06 |
| 1895 | 8 | #846 | 0.07 |
| 1893 | 7 | #889 | 0.06 |
| 1891 | 10 | #624 | 0.10 |
| 1890 | 6 | #963 | 0.05 |
| 1888 | 7 | #887 | 0.06 |
| 1887 | 11 | #573 | 0.11 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Myles a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Myles has been given almost only to boys: 325 girls in 134 years of records.
Girls and boys named Myles: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Myles, and how old are they?
60,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 64,837 Americans ever recorded as Myles. The median Myles alive today is 12 years old; half are between 5 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 38,830 people named Myles (273 women and girls, 38,557 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 42,293 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 242 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,410 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,340 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 6,630 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 18,000 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 33,300 |
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 Myles born?
The states with the most babies named Myles are California, Texas and Ohio, with 21% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 267 | #144 | 0.7× |
| Texas | 237 | #158 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 216 | #47 | 1.2× |
| Florida | 204 | #111 | 0.8× |
| New York | 157 | #115 | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 149 | #81 | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 140 | #59 | 1.2× |
| Indiana | 125 | #54 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 113 | #105 | 1.0× |
| Wisconsin | 110 | #40 | 1.4× |
Where Myles is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Myles is most over-represented in Massachusetts: 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 boys’ 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 Myles 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 190,116 babies since 1880, Myles is the second most given (34% of them). In 2025 it was given to 3,529 of their 9,690 babies (36%), 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 Myles
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 Myles and names like it
- Compare Myles and MilesBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMyles peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Myles since 1910.
- Germanic namesWiktionary’s origin for Myles: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Myles.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Myles alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.