How rare is the name Miles?

77,427 people in the United States have the first name Miles, about 1 in 3,901. It ranks #681 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

MILES

#681

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
77,427
About
1 in 3,901
This common or more
64%
Who bears it

Of the 77,427 people named Miles, 68.8% reported their origin as White, 10.7% as Black and 9.1% as two or more races. Virtually all are male (99.5%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Miles peaked in 2024, when 6,655 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
2024
Births that year
6,655
In 2025*
6,085 ▼9%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 123,225 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Miles by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2020s, when it ranked #79. The largest share of babies named Miles, 51.3%, were born in 2013 or later.

1880s#570418
1890s#669443
1900s#852413
1910s#8301,583
1920s#8222,345
1930s#9341,658
1940s#9721,994
1950s#9173,174
1960s#1,0242,834
1970s#1,2182,246
1980s#7365,704
1990s#5769,837
2000s#39917,842
2010s#18536,734
2020s#7936,000
Before 19010.7%
Greatest Generation 1901–273.1%
Silent Generation 1928–452.5%
Baby boom 1946–644.8%
Generation X 1965–803%
Millennials 1981–969.8%
Generation Z 1997–1224.8%
2013 and later51.3%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Miles is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Miles has been most common in Utah (2.6×), Colorado (1.9×), and Oregon (1.9×), and least common in West Virginia (0.37×).

116,757 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Miles

#679 Franklin · 78,051#680 Bill · 77,823#682 Skylar · 77,387#683 Kennedy · 77,115

Spelled almost the same

3 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Miles, most common first.

#10,016 Milos · 1,353#16,155 Mills · 703#31,941 Milas · 266

Also a last name

As a last name, Miles ranks #379 of 156,621, with 82,573 people. See Miles as a last name

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