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Mylah vs Myleigh

American parents have registered 6,544 Mylahs since 1880, against 1,236 Myleighs. Mylah is still ahead, with 486 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Mylah against Myleigh, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Mylah Myleigh

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 31 years in which either name was published, Mylah for 28 years and Myleigh for 3 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Mylah Myleigh
Total US births 6,5441,236
Most in one year 789153
Babies in 2025 48654
Estimated living today 6,5001,200
Median age today 514
Peak year 20232008
Best rank 388th girls1,521st girls
Rank in 2025 604th3,028th
First recorded 19931995
Girls / boys 6,544 / 01,236 / 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 Myleighs alive today are over 14; half the Mylahs are over 5. 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 Mylah Myleigh
England and Wales 81198

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: Mylah and Myleigh.