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Mylani vs Mylie

American parents have registered 1,982 Mylies since 1880, against 508 Mylanis. But in 2025 it was Mylani that was commoner, 70 babies to 58.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Mylani against Mylie, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Mylani 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 32 years in which either name was published, Mylie for 28 years and Mylani for 4 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Mylani Mylie
Total US births 5081,982
Most in one year 70337
Babies in 2025 7058
Estimated living today 5102,000
Median age today 517
Peak year 20252008
Best rank 2,514th girls839th girls
Rank in 2025 2,514th2,895th
First recorded 20031924
Girls / boys 508 / 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 Mylanis are over 5. That is 12 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 Mylie.