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Myles

Origin
Variant of Miles · Uncertain origin; folk-linked to Latin for soldier, or Slavic for grace (from Old French, of uncertain Germanic or Slavic origin)

Boy's name · #100 in the US (2025) · Trending

Popularity over time

Myles ranked #100 in 2025, with about 3,500 boys given the name last year. Roughly 65,000 have carried it since 1887.

Eddie Murphy and Nicole Mitchell chose the name for their son, Myles Mitchell Murphy, born in November 1992. Already rising, US births of Myles increased from 585 in 1992 to 860 in 1993, before falling the following year.

Across the states

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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 51 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Around the world

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#44 in Scotland (2025) · #50 in Australia (QLD) (2025) · #67 in England & Wales (2025) · #71 in Australia (VIC) (2025) · #74 in Australia (NSW) (2025) · #86 in New Zealand (2025) · #89 in N. Ireland (2025) · #114 in Ireland (2025) · #707 in Netherlands (2025) · #1,081 in Switzerland (2025) · #60 in Canada (2024).

Famous Myleses

In stories & tradition

What Myleses become

Among 264 notable people named Myles:

Sports figures appear 2.67× more often than among typical names — e.g. Myles Lewis-Skelly, English footballer (born 2006).

Spellings & nicknames

Together with its spelling variant Miles (#44), Myles would rank around #13 with about 9,600 births last year — the newborns split about 63/37 between Miles and Myles.

Similar names: Miles · Graham · Miller · Barrett · Malachi · Weston

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