Myla vs Mylinda
American parents have registered 22,134 Mylas since 1880, against 808 Mylindas. Myla is still ahead, with 1,436 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Myla Mylinda
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 111 years in which either name was published, Myla for 97 years and Mylinda for 14 years. The lead changed hands 14 times.
- 1913–1956 Myla ahead
- 1964–1970 Mylinda ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1975–2025 Myla ahead, apart from 2 short spells
9 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Myla | Mylinda | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 22,134 | 808 |
| Most in one year | 1,646 | 35 |
| Babies in 2025 | 1,436 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 22,000 | 730 |
| Median age today | 7 | 55 |
| Peak year | 2023 | 1957 |
| Best rank | 181st girls | 1,842nd girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 210th | unranked |
| First recorded | 1913 | 1947 |
| Girls / boys | 22,134 / 0 | 808 / 0 |
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 Mylindas alive today are over 55; half the Mylas are over 7. That is 48 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: Myla and Mylinda.