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Mylee vs Mylo

American parents have registered 4,420 Mylees since 1880, against 3,721 Mylos. But in 2025 it was Mylo that was commoner, 370 babies to 115.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Mylee Mylo

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 64 years in which either name was published, Mylo for 36 years and Mylee for 28 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.

Side by side

  Mylee Mylo
Total US births 4,4203,721
Most in one year 730445
Babies in 2025 115370
Estimated living today 4,4003,600
Median age today 164
Peak year 20082024
Best rank 435th girls642nd boys
Rank in 2025 1,758th736th
First recorded 19681919
Girls / boys 4,420 / 0156 / 3,565

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 Mylos are over 4. 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Mylee Mylo
England and Wales 4702,263
France 801,320
Scotland 24174
Northern Ireland 313

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: Mylee and Mylo.