Rising since 1985, #44 for boys today.
Popularity of Miles since 1880
Babies named Miles per year in U.S. Social Security records.
Data table (by decade)
| Decade | Boys |
|---|---|
| 1880s | 418 |
| 1890s | 443 |
| 1900s | 413 |
| 1910s | 1,583 |
| 1920s | 2,337 |
| 1930s | 1,658 |
| 1940s | 1,994 |
| 1950s | 3,174 |
| 1960s | 2,834 |
| 1970s | 2,241 |
| 1980s | 5,672 |
| 1990s | 9,815 |
| 2000s | 17,786 |
| 2010s | 36,601 |
| 2020s | 35,899 |
Meaning & origin
Jazz gave Miles its modern voice. A Norman name that came over with the Conquest and idled in the English stock for nine centuries, it was remade in the twentieth by Miles Davis, whose cool became permanently attached to the name's five letters. American parents have been responding since the mid-1980s: the climb that began in 1985 carried Miles to its all-time peak in 2023.
In 2025 it ranked No. 44 nationally, about one of every 281 newborn boys, and its strongest states are Wyoming, Vermont, and Montana, an outdoorsy northern spread for a name usually filed under urbane. That range is the point: Miles works equally well on a trailhead and at a piano recital. The etymology is honestly murky (the "soldier" gloss is medieval folk etymology), but the name's real inheritance is stylistic, brisk, worldly, and finished-sounding, with the Myles spelling and cousin Milo close behind it in the charts.
The Normans brought Milo (vernacular Miles) to England at the Conquest, and it appears in the Domesday Book. Its ultimate derivation is genuinely unsettled: most reference works call it a Germanic name of unknown meaning, some connect it to the Slavic element milu, "dear, gracious" (as in Milan and Miloš), and medieval writers linked it to the Latin miles, "soldier", an association scholars regard as folk etymology rather than origin. The name persisted quietly in England for centuries (the Mayflower's military captain spelled it Myles Standish) and became a fixture of Black American naming culture in the twentieth century, with the trumpeter Miles Davis its defining modern bearer. It has been climbing in the United States since the mid-1980s.
Read more: Miles on Wikipedia
Where Miles is most popular
Births per 100,000 boys by state. Press play or drag the slider to watch it move across the decades. The lightest shade means too few recorded births.
“Miles” around the world
Where Miles lands in the latest official birth statistics abroad, matched to the U.S. spelling.
France
20
babies in 2024
Ireland
22
babies in 2025
New Zealand
#53
in 2025
Quebec
39
babies in 2025
Australia (NSW)
#68
in 2025
Sources: INSEE (France) · CSO Ireland (Ireland) · NZ Dept of Internal Affairs (New Zealand) · Retraite Québec (Quebec) · NSW Registry of BDM (Australia (NSW)).
Nicknames & variants
Nicknames: Milo
Famous people named Miles
- Miles Davis · jazz trumpeter and bandleader
- Miles Teller · American film actor
Sibling names for Miles
Names that share Miles's style, for a brother or sister.
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Names like Miles
Names whose popularity has moved with Miles's over the last 50 years.

