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Mylee vs Mylinda

American parents have registered 4,420 Mylees since 1880, against 808 Mylindas. Mylee is still ahead, with 115 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Mylee Mylinda

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 78 years in which either name was published, Mylinda for 45 years and Mylee for 33 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Mylee Mylinda
Total US births 4,420808
Most in one year 73035
Babies in 2025 115under 5
Estimated living today 4,400730
Median age today 1655
Peak year 20081957
Best rank 435th girls1,842nd girls
Rank in 2025 1,758thunranked
First recorded 19681947
Girls / boys 4,420 / 0808 / 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 Mylindas alive today are over 55; half the Mylees are over 16. That is 39 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: Mylee and Mylinda.