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Myla

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
#210
1,436 girls
2015
#337
rank
1950
#2,864
rank

Myla: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,436 in 2025. Its best rank was #181 in 2023.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Peaked at #181 in 2023; #210 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Myla in 2025 was a girl.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

#210 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #181.

Babies in 2025
1,436
Since 1880
22,134
Years on record
111

Babies named Myla, every year since 1880

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Girls

Myla: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,436 girls in 2025. Peak: #181 in 2023 · most girls in one year: 1,646 (2023).

About the name Myla

In 2025, 1,436 US girls were named Myla, making it the 210th most common girls’ name of the year, down 24 places from #186 in 2024. That is 190 fewer than the 1,626 girls named Myla in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #181, reached in 2023. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,646. For comparison, it was #337 in 2015 and #2,864 in 1950.

Social Security card records list Myla in 111 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1913 with 7 babies. In all, 22,134 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 8,942 babies named Myla.

Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 12,909 US girls were named Myla; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 1,646. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,119 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.

Among the states, Myla ranked highest in Hawaii in 2025, at #75 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Mila (84,577 babies since 1880), Mayla (1,703 babies since 1880), Mylah (6,544 babies since 1880) and Milah (2,881 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Myella, Mylaya and Myayla are summarised on this page.

Meaning

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.

Related spellings

Rare spellings summarised here: Myella (57), Mylaya (32), Myayla (11).

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.

Nicknames

No nicknames listed for Myla in the open dataset we use.

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Myla by state, 2025

US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 7 are not listed.

StateBirths 2025Rank 2025Rank 2015
Hawaii10#75—
New Mexico12#127#209
Pennsylvania83#127#207
Iowa24#134#117
Delaware7#135—
Kansas23#143#354
Minnesota37#148#194
West Virginia11#149#153
South Dakota8#151—
Michigan55#156#269
Indiana44#157#301
Ohio70#158#222
North Carolina62#167#357
Missouri36#174#307
Wisconsin31#175#259
Florida99#183#318
North Dakota6#185#258
Maryland28#185#410
Arkansas17#185#431
Oregon20#187#412
Arizona35#196#356
Idaho11#212#354
Oklahoma19#214#505
Tennessee37#215#281
Louisiana20#221#325
New Hampshire6#227—
Massachusetts25#232#725
New Jersey34#245#424
California133#249#518
Utah18#255#221
Kentucky18#255#308
New York67#256#511
South Carolina20#261#308
Nebraska8#283#233
Virginia29#296#512
Illinois35#308#384
Texas109#311#438
Connecticut10#315#356
Mississippi9#329#289
Colorado19#333#236
Washington21#352#331
Nevada8#365#515
Georgia28#414#410
Alabama12#423#441

Rank by year

Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
20251,436#210——
20241,626#186——
20231,646#181——
20221,606#185——
20211,302#232——
20201,137#276——
20191,092#302——
20181,167#284——
20171,001#327——
2016896#363——
2015974#337——
2014879#371——
2013952#340——
2012777#401——
2011612#484——
2010592#505——
2009559#540——
2008512#601——
2007322#867——
2006291#909——
2005256#964——
2004219#1,060——
2003219#1,047——
2002146#1,334——
2001127#1,487——
200093#1,852——
199986#1,852——
199887#1,797——
199755#2,417——
199641#2,940——
199521#4,796——
199422#4,643——
199338#3,087——
199227#3,933——
199132#3,419——
199019#4,998——
198912#6,818——
198824#3,860——
198722#3,937——
198618#4,475——
198516#4,791——
198422#3,683——
198321#3,768——
198225#3,388——
198133#2,757——
198028#3,109——
197925#3,303——
197833#2,615——
197744#2,153——
197618#3,772——
197530#2,595——
197421#3,278——
197321#3,200——
197226#2,718——
197119#3,460——
197017#3,672——
196923#2,816——
196823#2,687——
196725#2,474——
196611#4,129——
196526#2,388——
196422#2,724——
196325#2,468——
196226#2,396——
196119#2,921——
196022#2,627——
195924#2,379——
195816#3,053——
195724#2,331——
195633#1,886——
195556#1,354——
195420#2,495——
195317#2,667——
195210#3,719——
195111#3,425——
195014#2,864——
194913#2,956——
194819#2,305——
194718#2,421——
194615#2,564——
194510#3,066——
19448#3,596——
19437#4,085——
19429#3,364——
194111#2,792——
194010#2,900——
193914#2,276——
193813#2,411——
19377#3,703——
19368#3,305——
193510#2,876——
19348#3,380——
19328#3,486——
19319#3,157——
193014#2,387——
192910#3,077——
19286#4,563——
192712#2,810——
19265#5,392——
19259#3,581——
19247#4,323——
192317#2,242——
19228#3,909——
192110#3,331——
19205#5,531——
19199#3,390——
19187#4,158——
19179#3,281——
19166#4,258——
19157#3,684——
19137#2,728——

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).