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Mylah vs Myleka

American parents have registered 6,544 Mylahs since 1880, against 71 Mylekas. Mylah is still ahead, with 486 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Mylah Myleka

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 35 years in which either name was published, Mylah for 30 years and Myleka for 5 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Mylah Myleka
Total US births 6,54471
Most in one year 78938
Babies in 2025 486under 5
Estimated living today 6,50070
Median age today 539
Peak year 20231986
Best rank 388th girls2,564th girls
Rank in 2025 604thunranked
First recorded 19931986
Girls / boys 6,544 / 071 / 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 Mylekas alive today are over 39; half the Mylahs are over 5. That is 34 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: Mylah and Myleka.