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Myleka vs Mylo

American parents have registered 3,721 Mylos since 1880, against 71 Mylekas. Mylo is still ahead, with 370 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Myleka against Mylo, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Myleka 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 60 years in which either name was published, Mylo for 55 years and Myleka for 5 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Myleka Mylo
Total US births 713,721
Most in one year 38445
Babies in 2025 under 5370
Estimated living today 703,600
Median age today 394
Peak year 19862024
Best rank 2,564th girls642nd boys
Rank in 2025 unranked736th
First recorded 19861919
Girls / boys 71 / 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 Mylekas alive today are over 39; half the Mylos are over 4. That is 35 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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