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Mylene vs Mylo

American parents have registered 3,721 Mylos since 1880, against 868 Mylenes. Mylo is still ahead, with 370 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Mylene 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 83 years in which either name was published, Mylene for 47 years and Mylo for 36 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Mylene Mylo
Total US births 8683,721
Most in one year 38445
Babies in 2025 16370
Estimated living today 8303,600
Median age today 234
Peak year 20172024
Best rank 3,919th girls642nd boys
Rank in 2025 6,838th736th
First recorded 19501919
Girls / boys 868 / 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 Mylenes alive today are over 23; half the Mylos are over 4. That is 19 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 Mylene Mylo
France 24,450 Mylène1,320
England and Wales 32,263
Belgium 72 Mylène363

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: Mylene and Mylo.