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Mylah vs Mylani

American parents have registered 6,544 Mylahs since 1880, against 508 Mylanis. Mylah is still ahead, with 486 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Mylah against Mylani, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Mylah Mylani

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

Mylah has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1993 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2003, when Mylah had 35 and Mylani had 6.

Side by side

  Mylah Mylani
Total US births 6,544508
Most in one year 78970
Babies in 2025 48670
Estimated living today 6,500510
Median age today 55
Peak year 20232025
Best rank 388th girls2,514th girls
Rank in 2025 604th2,514th
First recorded 19932003
Girls / boys 6,544 / 0508 / 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.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Mylah and Mylani.