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Myla vs Mylee

American parents have registered 22,134 Mylas since 1880, against 4,420 Mylees. Myla is still ahead, with 1,436 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Myla against Mylee, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Myla Mylee

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

Of the 111 years in which either name was published, Myla for 109 years and Mylee for 2 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Myla Mylee
Total US births 22,1344,420
Most in one year 1,646730
Babies in 2025 1,436115
Estimated living today 22,0004,400
Median age today 716
Peak year 20232008
Best rank 181st girls435th girls
Rank in 2025 210th1,758th
First recorded 19131968
Girls / boys 22,134 / 04,420 / 0

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 Mylees alive today are over 16; half the Mylas are over 7. That is 9 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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 Myla Mylee
England and Wales 6,380470
France 4,86580
Scotland 65324
Northern Ireland 3403

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: Myla and Mylee.