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Myleka vs Mylie

American parents have registered 1,982 Mylies since 1880, against 71 Mylekas. Mylie is still ahead, with 58 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Myleka against Mylie, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Myleka Mylie

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 36 years in which either name was published, Mylie for 32 years and Myleka for 4 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Myleka Mylie
Total US births 711,982
Most in one year 38337
Babies in 2025 under 558
Estimated living today 702,000
Median age today 3917
Peak year 19862008
Best rank 2,564th girls839th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked2,895th
First recorded 19861924
Girls / boys 71 / 01,982 / 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 Mylies are over 17. That is 22 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: Myleka and Mylie.