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Myleah vs Mylee

American parents have registered 4,420 Mylees since 1880, against 505 Myleahs. Mylee is still ahead, with 115 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Myleah 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 40 years in which either name was published, Mylee for 38 years and Myleah for 2 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Myleah Mylee
Total US births 5054,420
Most in one year 39730
Babies in 2025 15115
Estimated living today 5004,400
Median age today 1416
Peak year 20092008
Best rank 3,944th girls435th girls
Rank in 2025 7,133rd1,758th
First recorded 19881968
Girls / boys 505 / 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 Myleahs are over 14. That is 2 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.

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