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Milania vs Miles

American parents have registered 123,225 Mileses since 1880, against 3,424 Milanias. Miles is still ahead, with 6,085 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Milania against Miles, 1880 to 2025 0 2k 4k 6k 8k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Milania Miles

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

Miles 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 2014, when Milania had 369 and Miles had 3,710.

Side by side

  Milania Miles
Total US births 3,424123,225
Most in one year 3696,655
Babies in 2025 1186,085
Estimated living today 3,400112,000
Median age today 1011
Peak year 20142024
Best rank 757th girls37th boys
Rank in 2025 1,721st44th
First recorded 20001880
Girls / boys 3,424 / 0357 / 122,868

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.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Milania Miles
England and Wales 1759,634
Scotland 12396
Northern Ireland 362
Poland 227

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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