Meaning not yet researched.
Milo: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 2,974 in 2025. Its best rank was #119 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 99% of babies named Milo in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#119 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Milo: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 2,974 boys in 2025. Peak: #119 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 3,115 (2022).
In 2025, 2,974 US boys were named Milo, making it the 119th most common boys’ name of the year, up 1 place from #120 in 2024. That is 27 fewer than the 3,001 boys named Milo in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #119, reached in this year, 2025. The most boys given the name in a single year was 3,115, in 2022. For comparison, it was #288 in 2015 and #693 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Milo in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 26 babies with the name. In all, 44,313 US babies have been given the name, 1.1% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 17,939 babies named Milo.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 25,604 US boys were named Milo; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 3,115. In 2025 that was about 1 in 574 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Milo ranked highest in Utah in 2025, at #32 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 17 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Mylo (3,721 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Miloh, Mello and Myloh are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Miloh (383), Mello (88), Myloh (83), Meelo (62), Miylo (7), Milou (6), Myloe (5).
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 Milo in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so every state is listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 100 | #32 | #114 |
| Hawaii | 18 | #42 | #310 |
| Minnesota | 101 | #48 | #141 |
| Wyoming | 9 | #51 | — |
| Nebraska | 40 | #54 | #241 |
| Colorado | 103 | #54 | #229 |
| Vermont | 9 | #55 | #104 |
| Oregon | 60 | #56 | #123 |
| Idaho | 35 | #57 | #282 |
| Montana | 18 | #59 | — |
| Alaska | 12 | #62 | #242 |
| Washington | 107 | #66 | #217 |
| South Dakota | 17 | #67 | #279 |
| Michigan | 106 | #87 | #211 |
| District of Columbia | 10 | #92 | #165 |
| Iowa | 39 | #96 | #225 |
| Maine | 14 | #98 | — |
| Wisconsin | 60 | #101 | #182 |
| Maryland | 53 | #107 | #357 |
| Kansas | 35 | #108 | #243 |
| Rhode Island | 11 | #109 | #136 |
| Missouri | 64 | #110 | #238 |
| Indiana | 71 | #110 | #237 |
| Massachusetts | 64 | #113 | #206 |
| Ohio | 115 | #119 | #288 |
| Pennsylvania | 107 | #120 | #266 |
| Nevada | 26 | #121 | #220 |
| New York | 146 | #130 | #269 |
| Arizona | 68 | #130 | #265 |
| California | 306 | #133 | #289 |
| Delaware | 8 | #134 | — |
| Virginia | 66 | #134 | #341 |
| New Hampshire | 11 | #139 | #165 |
| Kentucky | 40 | #141 | #373 |
| New Jersey | 68 | #143 | #300 |
| Oklahoma | 33 | #145 | #367 |
| West Virginia | 14 | #145 | #363 |
| Florida | 149 | #147 | #349 |
| Georgia | 82 | #149 | #649 |
| North Carolina | 87 | #152 | #434 |
| Connecticut | 24 | #153 | #346 |
| Arkansas | 24 | #157 | #388 |
| New Mexico | 13 | #157 | #382 |
| Illinois | 76 | #158 | #263 |
| Tennessee | 58 | #169 | #329 |
| North Dakota | 7 | #187 | #195 |
| Mississippi | 17 | #187 | — |
| Texas | 199 | #194 | #443 |
| Louisiana | 27 | #197 | #778 |
| South Carolina | 26 | #220 | #516 |
| Alabama | 21 | #270 | #785 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,849 | 2,974 | #119 |
| 2024 | 23 | #5,559 | 3,001 | #120 |
| 2023 | 34 | #4,253 | 2,971 | #121 |
| 2022 | 47 | #3,395 | 3,115 | #120 |
| 2021 | 37 | #3,987 | 2,918 | #127 |
| 2020 | 30 | #4,514 | 2,768 | #134 |
| 2019 | 41 | #3,703 | 2,442 | #162 |
| 2018 | 33 | #4,309 | 2,200 | #178 |
| 2017 | 27 | #5,011 | 1,705 | #224 |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,236 | 1,510 | #248 |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,786 | 1,284 | #288 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,965 | 1,120 | #311 |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,933 | 1,098 | #312 |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,200 | 971 | #325 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,546 | 838 | #358 |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,253 | 655 | #423 |
| 2009 | 10 | #11,233 | 618 | #450 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,569 | 633 | #444 |
| 2007 | — | — | 476 | #539 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,491 | 338 | #673 |
| 2005 | — | — | 282 | #724 |
| 2004 | — | — | 236 | #769 |
| 2003 | — | — | 220 | #795 |
| 2002 | — | — | 212 | #808 |
| 2001 | — | — | 156 | #985 |
| 2000 | — | — | 127 | #1,113 |
| 1999 | — | — | 81 | #1,444 |
| 1998 | — | — | 100 | #1,229 |
| 1997 | — | — | 82 | #1,361 |
| 1996 | — | — | 58 | #1,664 |
| 1995 | — | — | 53 | #1,699 |
| 1994 | — | — | 51 | #1,747 |
| 1993 | — | — | 44 | #1,887 |
| 1992 | — | — | 48 | #1,771 |
| 1991 | — | — | 56 | #1,555 |
| 1990 | — | — | 83 | #1,197 |
| 1989 | — | — | 61 | #1,405 |
| 1988 | — | — | 42 | #1,694 |
| 1987 | — | — | 48 | #1,498 |
| 1986 | — | — | 42 | #1,579 |
| 1985 | — | — | 52 | #1,344 |
| 1984 | — | — | 55 | #1,246 |
| 1983 | — | — | 56 | #1,230 |
| 1982 | — | — | 63 | #1,162 |
| 1981 | — | — | 50 | #1,321 |
| 1980 | — | — | 45 | #1,425 |
| 1979 | — | — | 62 | #1,149 |
| 1978 | — | — | 56 | #1,196 |
| 1977 | — | — | 57 | #1,170 |
| 1976 | — | — | 63 | #1,053 |
| 1975 | — | — | 49 | #1,222 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,692 | 46 | #1,241 |
| 1973 | — | — | 63 | #1,019 |
| 1972 | — | — | 54 | #1,119 |
| 1971 | — | — | 59 | #1,065 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,858 | 54 | #1,126 |
| 1969 | — | — | 45 | #1,180 |
| 1968 | — | — | 41 | #1,202 |
| 1967 | — | — | 50 | #1,040 |
| 1966 | — | — | 45 | #1,111 |
| 1965 | — | — | 56 | #991 |
| 1964 | — | — | 62 | #972 |
| 1963 | — | — | 57 | #1,010 |
| 1962 | — | — | 52 | #1,064 |
| 1961 | — | — | 61 | #998 |
| 1960 | — | — | 53 | #1,066 |
| 1959 | — | — | 70 | #918 |
| 1958 | — | — | 69 | #913 |
| 1957 | — | — | 76 | #870 |
| 1956 | — | — | 85 | #816 |
| 1955 | — | — | 109 | #703 |
| 1954 | — | — | 97 | #734 |
| 1953 | — | — | 82 | #794 |
| 1952 | — | — | 95 | #725 |
| 1951 | — | — | 104 | #685 |
| 1950 | — | — | 98 | #693 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,784 | 89 | #733 |
| 1948 | — | — | 102 | #670 |
| 1947 | — | — | 88 | #734 |
| 1946 | — | — | 91 | #678 |
| 1945 | 5 | #5,035 | 86 | #653 |
| 1944 | — | — | 76 | #716 |
| 1943 | — | — | 107 | #611 |
| 1942 | — | — | 71 | #767 |
| 1941 | — | — | 94 | #627 |
| 1940 | — | — | 100 | #594 |
| 1939 | — | — | 85 | #645 |
| 1938 | — | — | 95 | #611 |
| 1937 | — | — | 111 | #554 |
| 1936 | — | — | 120 | #516 |
| 1935 | — | — | 95 | #595 |
| 1934 | — | — | 128 | #516 |
| 1933 | — | — | 124 | #505 |
| 1932 | — | — | 123 | #527 |
| 1931 | — | — | 128 | #510 |
| 1930 | — | — | 156 | #477 |
| 1929 | — | — | 144 | #489 |
| 1928 | — | — | 157 | #485 |
| 1927 | — | — | 151 | #496 |
| 1926 | — | — | 131 | #531 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,535 | 157 | #486 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,862 | 163 | #486 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,790 | 174 | #466 |
| 1922 | — | — | 196 | #432 |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,312 | 197 | #435 |
| 1920 | — | — | 217 | #399 |
| 1919 | — | — | 196 | #419 |
| 1918 | — | — | 185 | #432 |
| 1917 | — | — | 193 | #407 |
| 1916 | — | — | 193 | #399 |
| 1915 | — | — | 180 | #401 |
| 1914 | — | — | 149 | #391 |
| 1913 | — | — | 112 | #408 |
| 1912 | — | — | 95 | #395 |
| 1911 | — | — | 45 | #438 |
| 1910 | — | — | 30 | #518 |
| 1909 | — | — | 33 | #445 |
| 1908 | — | — | 28 | #472 |
| 1907 | — | — | 36 | #376 |
| 1906 | — | — | 30 | #397 |
| 1905 | — | — | 18 | #561 |
| 1904 | — | — | 21 | #475 |
| 1903 | — | — | 22 | #442 |
| 1902 | — | — | 24 | #423 |
| 1901 | — | — | 27 | #357 |
| 1900 | — | — | 22 | #505 |
| 1899 | — | — | 21 | #410 |
| 1898 | — | — | 22 | #427 |
| 1897 | — | — | 20 | #431 |
| 1896 | — | — | 31 | #347 |
| 1895 | — | — | 18 | #484 |
| 1894 | — | — | 25 | #375 |
| 1893 | — | — | 20 | #414 |
| 1892 | — | — | 35 | #314 |
| 1891 | — | — | 16 | #451 |
| 1890 | — | — | 17 | #453 |
| 1889 | — | — | 17 | #455 |
| 1888 | — | — | 20 | #426 |
| 1887 | — | — | 23 | #350 |
| 1886 | — | — | 24 | #352 |
| 1885 | — | — | 21 | #390 |
| 1884 | — | — | 22 | #380 |
| 1883 | — | — | 20 | #392 |
| 1882 | — | — | 27 | #343 |
| 1881 | — | — | 19 | #392 |
| 1880 | — | — | 26 | #339 |
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).