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.