Miles
Miles reached its high-water mark in 2024 at number 37, and has been recorded 123,225 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 44th. About 112,000 Mileses are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 11.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Miles boys named Miles
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 123,225
- Estimated living today
- 112,000
- Median age today
- 11
- Peak year
- 2024
- Best rank
- 37th
- Rank in 2025
- 44th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 357 / 122,868
How old the living Mileses are
born that year still alive today
Of the 123,225 babies given the name since 1880, about 112,000 are alive — 91 in every hundred. Roughly 77,000 of them are children and 3,600 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2014 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
From Old French given name Milo, of problematic origin, possibly from an unknown Germanic element, or a short form of sla names beginning with mil- "grace, favor". The English form is associated by folk etymology with Latin mīles (“soldier”). As a surname, it is also derived from a Middle English Miles form of Michael.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Miless
- Miles Davis (1926–1991)American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer
- Miles Teller (born 1987)American actor
- Miles Franklin (1879–1954)Australian writer and feminist
- Miles Heizer (born 1994)American actor
- Miles Robinson (born 1997)American soccer player
- Miles Joseph Berkeley (1803–1889)British botanist
- Miles Dempsey (1896–1969)British army officer
- Miles Fisher (born 1983)American film and television actor and musician
People named Miles with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Miles is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Miles is most concentrated in Utah (2.6×), Colorado (1.9×), Washington (1.9×), Oregon (1.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2024
The most popular boys’ names the year Miles peaked:
Miles elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Miles | 9,634 | 111th |
| Scotland boys | Miles | 396 | 114th |
| France boys | Miles | 285 | 1,748th |
| Switzerland boys | Miles | 221 | 457th |
| Ireland boys | Miles | 187 | 204th |
| Belgium boys | Miles | 167 | 511th |
| New Zealand boys | Miles | 161 | 74th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Miles | 62 | 207th |
| Poland boys | Miles | 7 birth registrations | 492nd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Miles: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Miles | 179 | 0.014% | 369th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Miles | 42 | 0.010% | 298th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Miles is most concentrated in Zurich, where 0.02% of children were given it – 66 of them.
Miles: rank by region
In 2025, Miles was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Miles | 409 | 14 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Miles appears in the lists for Province of Antwerp (341st).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Miles by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 20 | 377th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Miles among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Miles | 42 | 84 |
| Finland girls | Miles | — | 7 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Miles against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.