Meaning not yet researched.
Miley: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 900 in 2025. Its best rank was #129 in 2008.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #129 in 2008; #338 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Miley in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#338 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2008, at #129.
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Miley: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 900 girls in 2025. Peak: #129 in 2008 · most girls in one year: 2,652 (2008).
In 2025, 900 US girls were named Miley, making it the 338th most common girls’ name of the year, up 50 places from #388 in 2024. That is 85 more than the 815 girls named Miley in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #129, reached in 2008. That year also had the most girls given the name: 2,652. For comparison, it was #1,017 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Miley in 56 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1889 with 5 babies. In all, 15,779 US babies have been given the name, 99.5% of them girls and 0.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 6,077 babies named Miley.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,862 US girls were named Miley; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 900. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,786 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Miley ranked highest in Idaho in 2025, at #187 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Maylee (4,596 babies since 1880), Mylee (4,420 babies since 1880), Mileena (2,098 babies since 1880) and Mylie (1,982 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Melea, Mily and Mileah are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Melea (1,096), Mily (491), Mileah (432), Smiley (363), Mylea (310), Mylei (261), Meily (207), Myleen (197), Myley (160), Milea (159), Mely (84), Melly (72), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Miley in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 14 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Idaho | 12 | #187 | — |
| Ohio | 57 | #193 | #689 |
| Oklahoma | 21 | #193 | #858 |
| Kentucky | 22 | #211 | — |
| Iowa | 16 | #215 | #503 |
| Missouri | 29 | #216 | #596 |
| Kansas | 15 | #217 | — |
| Indiana | 32 | #221 | #918 |
| Utah | 21 | #229 | — |
| Mississippi | 12 | #230 | #640 |
| Alabama | 21 | #232 | — |
| Louisiana | 18 | #251 | #858 |
| Wisconsin | 20 | #271 | #943 |
| Minnesota | 20 | #281 | — |
| Florida | 67 | #283 | #892 |
| Pennsylvania | 34 | #323 | #1,000 |
| Arkansas | 10 | #330 | — |
| Colorado | 18 | #348 | — |
| Illinois | 30 | #349 | #962 |
| North Carolina | 30 | #366 | — |
| Michigan | 24 | #371 | #975 |
| Nebraska | 6 | #379 | — |
| New Jersey | 21 | #385 | #1,137 |
| Nevada | 7 | #410 | — |
| Oregon | 9 | #418 | #653 |
| Washington | 17 | #424 | — |
| New York | 40 | #438 | #1,351 |
| South Carolina | 11 | #457 | — |
| Tennessee | 17 | #471 | #1,032 |
| Texas | 69 | #474 | #1,221 |
| Georgia | 24 | #482 | #763 |
| Arizona | 14 | #506 | — |
| Connecticut | 6 | #525 | — |
| California | 62 | #536 | #946 |
| Maryland | 9 | #586 | #859 |
| Massachusetts | 9 | #605 | — |
| Virginia | 12 | #645 | #1,346 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 900 | #338 | — | — |
| 2024 | 815 | #388 | — | — |
| 2023 | 684 | #449 | — | — |
| 2022 | 421 | #702 | — | — |
| 2021 | 381 | #748 | — | — |
| 2020 | 369 | #743 | — | — |
| 2019 | 367 | #764 | — | — |
| 2018 | 378 | #738 | — | — |
| 2017 | 292 | #917 | — | — |
| 2016 | 255 | #1,038 | — | — |
| 2015 | 263 | #1,017 | — | — |
| 2014 | 356 | #788 | — | — |
| 2013 | 803 | #387 | — | — |
| 2012 | 930 | #342 | — | — |
| 2011 | 991 | #317 | — | — |
| 2010 | 1,442 | #215 | — | — |
| 2009 | 1,737 | #189 | — | — |
| 2008 | 2,652 | #129 | — | — |
| 2007 | 1,233 | #279 | — | — |
| 2006 | 198 | #1,221 | — | — |
| 2005 | 26 | #5,064 | — | — |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,421 | — | — |
| 2003 | 27 | #4,772 | — | — |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,150 | — | — |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,161 | — | — |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,456 | — | — |
| 1999 | 9 | #10,056 | — | — |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,798 | — | — |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,188 | — | — |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,384 | — | — |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,864 | — | — |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,779 | — | — |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,765 | — | — |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,412 | — | — |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,793 | — | — |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,897 | — | — |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,458 | — | — |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,233 | — | — |
| 1957 | — | — | 7 | #3,457 |
| 1947 | — | — | 7 | #3,270 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,463 | — | — |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,718 | 6 | #3,400 |
| 1932 | — | — | 5 | #4,122 |
| 1929 | — | — | 5 | #4,359 |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,208 | 6 | #3,996 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,370 | 9 | #3,078 |
| 1926 | 10 | #3,205 | 6 | #4,039 |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,305 | — | — |
| 1923 | — | — | 7 | #3,704 |
| 1922 | — | — | 5 | #4,751 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,782 | — | — |
| 1916 | — | — | 6 | #3,755 |
| 1915 | — | — | 6 | #3,699 |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,734 | — | — |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,586 | — | — |
| 1889 | 5 | #1,417 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).