Miley

At the 2020 census, 6,728 Americans bore the surname Miley — 5,054th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 44,400.

By the numbers

People: 6,728
Rank: 5,054th
How common: 1 in 44,400
Per 100,000: 2.3

Where the name comes from

Popularised as a female name by American pop singer Miley Ray Cyrus (nicknamed Miley from "smiley").

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Miley described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 79.1%
Black, not Hispanic 13.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Miley

Lewis Miley (born 2006)English association football player
Hannah Miley (born 1989)British swimmer, Olympic athlete, world champion

People named Miley with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Miley

Also a first name

Miley has been given to 15,779 American babies as a first name since 1889, peaking in 2008. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.