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Mylan vs Mylee

American parents have registered 4,420 Mylees since 1880, against 1,875 Mylans. Mylee is still ahead, with 115 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Mylan 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 54 years in which either name was published, Mylan for 27 years and Mylee for 27 years. The lead changed hands 9 times.

Side by side

  Mylan Mylee
Total US births 1,8754,420
Most in one year 110730
Babies in 2025 96115
Estimated living today 1,8004,400
Median age today 1216
Peak year 20242008
Best rank 1,709th boys435th girls
Rank in 2025 1,826th1,758th
First recorded 19321968
Girls / boys 433 / 1,4424,420 / 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 Mylans are over 12. That is 4 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 Mylan Mylee
France 6,69080
England and Wales 78470

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: Mylan and Mylee.