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Myla vs Mylie

American parents have registered 22,134 Mylas since 1880, against 1,982 Mylies. Myla is still ahead, with 1,436 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Myla Mylie

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 110 years and Mylie for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Myla Mylie
Total US births 22,1341,982
Most in one year 1,646337
Babies in 2025 1,43658
Estimated living today 22,0002,000
Median age today 717
Peak year 20232008
Best rank 181st girls839th girls
Rank in 2025 210th2,895th
First recorded 19131924
Girls / boys 22,134 / 01,982 / 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 Mylies alive today are over 17; half the Mylas are over 7. That is 10 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 Mylie
England and Wales 6,380550
France 4,865270
Scotland 65392
Northern Ireland 34028
Ireland 12712

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 Mylie.