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Mylani vs Mylee

American parents have registered 4,420 Mylees since 1880, against 508 Mylanis. Mylee is still ahead, with 115 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Mylani 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

Mylee has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1968 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Mylani had 70 and Mylee had 115.

Side by side

  Mylani Mylee
Total US births 5084,420
Most in one year 70730
Babies in 2025 70115
Estimated living today 5104,400
Median age today 516
Peak year 20252008
Best rank 2,514th girls435th girls
Rank in 2025 2,514th1,758th
First recorded 20031968
Girls / boys 508 / 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 Mylanis are over 5. That is 11 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.

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