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Mylah vs Mylee

American parents have registered 6,544 Mylahs since 1880, against 4,420 Mylees. Mylah is still ahead, with 486 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Mylah Mylee

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 39 years in which either name was published, Mylee for 25 years and Mylah for 14 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Mylah Mylee
Total US births 6,5444,420
Most in one year 789730
Babies in 2025 486115
Estimated living today 6,5004,400
Median age today 516
Peak year 20232008
Best rank 388th girls435th girls
Rank in 2025 604th1,758th
First recorded 19931968
Girls / boys 6,544 / 04,420 / 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 Mylees alive today are over 16; half the Mylahs are over 5. That is 11 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 Mylah Mylee
England and Wales 811470
France 12080
Scotland 16824
Northern Ireland 463

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: Mylah and Mylee.