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Miladeen vs Milo

American parents have registered 44,313 Milos since 1880, against 9 Miladeens. Milo is still ahead, with 2,995 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Miladeen against Milo, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Miladeen Milo

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Milo has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1929, when Miladeen had 9 and Milo had 144.

Side by side

  Miladeen Milo
Total US births 944,313
Most in one year 93,162
Babies in 2025 under 52,995
Estimated living today 138,000
Median age today 966
Peak year 19292022
Best rank 3,137th girls120th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked119th
First recorded 19291880
Girls / boys 9 / 0466 / 43,847

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Miladeens alive today are over 96; half the Milos are over 6. That is 90 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Miladeen and Milo.