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Myla vs Mylo

American parents have registered 22,134 Mylas since 1880, against 3,721 Mylos. Myla is still ahead, with 1,436 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Myla against Mylo, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Myla 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 112 years in which either name was published, Myla for 110 years and Mylo for 2 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Myla Mylo
Total US births 22,1343,721
Most in one year 1,646445
Babies in 2025 1,436370
Estimated living today 22,0003,600
Median age today 74
Peak year 20232024
Best rank 181st girls642nd boys
Rank in 2025 210th736th
First recorded 19131919
Girls / boys 22,134 / 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 Mylas alive today are over 7; half the Mylos are over 4. That is 3 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 Myla Mylo
England and Wales 6,3802,263
France 4,8651,320
Belgium 500363
Scotland 653174
Northern Ireland 34013
Switzerland 204105
Ireland 127141

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: Myla and Mylo.