Meaning not yet researched.
Mylan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 87 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,716 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,716 in 2024; #1,832 in 2025. About 91% of babies named Mylan in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,832 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #1,716.
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Mylan: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 87 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,716 in 2024 · most boys in one year: 97 (2024).
In 2025, 87 US boys were named Mylan, making it the 1,832nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 116 places from #1,716 in 2024. That is 10 fewer than the 97 boys named Mylan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,716, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 97. For comparison, it was #2,591 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 9 US girls were named Mylan, making it the 10,659th most common girls’ name of the year, down 2,365 places from #8,294 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 13 girls named Mylan in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #5,491, reached in 2011. That year also had the most girls given the name: 25. For comparison, it was #7,881 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mylan in 53 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1932 with 6 babies. In all, 1,875 US babies have been given the name, 23% of them girls and 77% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 643 babies named Mylan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 644 US boys were named Mylan; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 97. In 2025 that was about 1 in 19,633 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Mylan ranked highest in Ohio in 2025, at #990 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Milan (28,165 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Meylin, Mylinh and Mylynn 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: Meylin (560), Mylinh (269), Mylynn (177), Myelin (5), Mylinn (5), Myalin (5), Myalyn (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 Mylan 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 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 8 | #990 | #1,332 |
| Florida | 14 | #995 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,196 | — |
| Texas | 12 | #1,532 | #2,052 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,659 | 87 | #1,832 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,294 | 97 | #1,716 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,356 | 88 | #1,825 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,367 | 77 | #1,991 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,904 | 65 | #2,187 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,785 | 54 | #2,432 |
| 2019 | 8 | #12,093 | 38 | #3,133 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,439 | 49 | #2,602 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,754 | 45 | #2,747 |
| 2016 | 18 | #6,832 | 44 | #2,755 |
| 2015 | 15 | #7,881 | 48 | #2,591 |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,930 | 54 | #2,393 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,288 | 54 | #2,353 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,979 | 55 | #2,347 |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,491 | 38 | #3,030 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,568 | 50 | #2,499 |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,260 | 36 | #3,203 |
| 2008 | 19 | #6,994 | 42 | #2,865 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,609 | 32 | #3,422 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,723 | 25 | #3,961 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,928 | 29 | #3,429 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,699 | 29 | #3,341 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,508 | 27 | #3,420 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,296 | 14 | #5,312 |
| 2001 | 13 | #8,056 | 18 | #4,412 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,712 | 16 | #4,724 |
| 1999 | 9 | #10,069 | 28 | #2,996 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,854 | 23 | #3,356 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,353 | 16 | #4,178 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,939 | 11 | #5,424 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,347 | 12 | #5,016 |
| 1994 | — | — | 8 | #6,782 |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,011 | 8 | #6,639 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,826 | — | — |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,646 | 6 | #7,932 |
| 1990 | — | — | 20 | #3,133 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,802 | 7 | #6,717 |
| 1988 | — | — | 6 | #6,990 |
| 1987 | — | — | 11 | #4,154 |
| 1986 | — | — | 5 | #7,469 |
| 1985 | — | — | 7 | #5,565 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,808 | — | — |
| 1979 | — | — | 6 | #5,827 |
| 1977 | — | — | 6 | #5,621 |
| 1976 | — | — | 6 | #5,394 |
| 1974 | — | — | 6 | #5,049 |
| 1969 | — | — | 6 | #4,263 |
| 1966 | — | — | 7 | #3,443 |
| 1965 | — | — | 5 | #4,270 |
| 1962 | — | — | 5 | #4,456 |
| 1943 | — | — | 5 | #3,885 |
| 1939 | — | — | 5 | #3,822 |
| 1932 | — | — | 6 | #3,646 |
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).