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Milliana vs Milo

American parents have registered 44,313 Milos since 1880, against 695 Millianas. Milo is still ahead, with 2,995 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Milliana against Milo, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Milliana Milo

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

Milo has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2011, when Milliana had 39 and Milo had 850.

Side by side

  Milliana Milo
Total US births 69544,313
Most in one year 633,162
Babies in 2025 542,995
Estimated living today 69038,000
Median age today 66
Peak year 20242022
Best rank 2,722nd girls120th boys
Rank in 2025 3,028th119th
First recorded 20061880
Girls / boys 695 / 0466 / 43,847

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.

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 Milliana Milo
France 2017,700
England and Wales 1210,152

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: Milliana and Milo.