Popularity of the name Miles, 1880–2025
Miles was at its most popular in 2023, when 6,589 boys were given the name: about 1 in 260 boys born in the U.S. that year, ranking #43. In 2025, 6,072 boys were named Miles, ranking #44. In all, Social Security counts 122,868 boys named Miles since 1880. Social Security’s records also list 357 girls named Miles.
- Peak year
- 2023
- Rank in 2023
- #43
- Babies in 2023
- 6,589
- Rank in 2025
- #44
- Total since 1880
- 122,868
Where it stands now
Over the last ten years it has climbed from #107 in 2015 to #44 in 2025, with 3,740 boys named Miles in 2015 and 6,072 in 2025.
Decade by decade
Miles ranked highest in the 2020s so far, at #49, with 35,899 boys given the name that decade. It started at #263 in the 1880s.
Every 20 years in the records: 54 in 1880 (#216), 55 in 1900 (#277), 231 in 1920 (#390), 150 in 1940 (#471), 331 in 1960 (#442), 298 in 1980 (#490), 1,305 in 2000 (#257) and 5,300 in 2020 (#59).
Highs and lows
The most boys given the name in a single year was 6,634, in 2024. That is not its peak year: Social Security’s records hold more boys for 2024 than for 2023, so the name’s share of births was smaller. Its best rank in any year was #37, first reached in 2024.
Every year
The table lists every year from 1880 to 2025 in which Social Security recorded at least 5 boys named Miles, with the name’s rank that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880 | 54 | #216 |
| 1881 | 40 | #244 |
| 1882 | 44 | #258 |
| 1883 | 42 | #253 |
| 1884 | 39 | #271 |
| 1885 | 52 | #227 |
| 1886 | 36 | #283 |
| 1887 | 35 | #272 |
| 1888 | 43 | #273 |
| 1889 | 33 | #294 |
| 1890 | 47 | #246 |
| 1891 | 44 | #240 |
| 1892 | 47 | #261 |
| 1893 | 35 | #292 |
| 1894 | 56 | #228 |
| 1895 | 33 | #316 |
| 1896 | 42 | #282 |
| 1897 | 44 | #263 |
| 1898 | 59 | #230 |
| 1899 | 36 | #289 |
| 1900 | 55 | #277 |
| 1901 | 37 | #284 |
| 1902 | 45 | #282 |
| 1903 | 44 | #282 |
| 1904 | 45 | #285 |
| 1905 | 36 | #337 |
| 1906 | 24 | #456 |
| 1907 | 41 | #331 |
| 1908 | 44 | #341 |
| 1909 | 42 | #365 |
| 1910 | 53 | #345 |
| 1911 | 50 | #404 |
| 1912 | 93 | #399 |
| 1913 | 119 | #390 |
| 1914 | 127 | #425 |
| 1915 | 186 | #395 |
| 1916 | 217 | #372 |
| 1917 | 232 | #365 |
| 1918 | 245 | #381 |
| 1919 | 261 | #354 |
| 1920 | 231 | #390 |
| 1921 | 233 | #398 |
| 1922 | 295 | #344 |
| 1923 | 239 | #384 |
| 1924 | 233 | #399 |
| 1925 | 244 | #382 |
| 1926 | 242 | #377 |
| 1927 | 215 | #411 |
| 1928 | 220 | #404 |
| 1929 | 185 | #433 |
| 1930 | 165 | #461 |
| 1931 | 169 | #435 |
| 1932 | 197 | #403 |
| 1933 | 157 | #439 |
| 1934 | 154 | #454 |
| 1935 | 161 | #449 |
| 1936 | 179 | #412 |
| 1937 | 147 | #458 |
| 1938 | 163 | #452 |
| 1939 | 166 | #442 |
| 1940 | 150 | #471 |
| 1941 | 160 | #470 |
| 1942 | 175 | #469 |
| 1943 | 154 | #500 |
| 1944 | 156 | #487 |
| 1945 | 163 | #465 |
| 1946 | 202 | #445 |
| 1947 | 272 | #414 |
| 1948 | 276 | #409 |
| 1949 | 286 | #397 |
| 1950 | 326 | #374 |
| 1951 | 300 | #390 |
| 1952 | 307 | #392 |
| 1953 | 293 | #408 |
| 1954 | 353 | #378 |
| 1955 | 318 | #412 |
| 1956 | 321 | #420 |
| 1957 | 309 | #437 |
| 1958 | 327 | #434 |
| 1959 | 320 | #447 |
| 1960 | 331 | #442 |
| 1961 | 323 | #450 |
| 1962 | 386 | #409 |
| 1963 | 331 | #438 |
| 1964 | 317 | #448 |
| 1965 | 291 | #453 |
| 1966 | 215 | #516 |
| 1967 | 203 | #523 |
| 1968 | 210 | #524 |
| 1969 | 227 | #515 |
| 1970 | 230 | #532 |
| 1971 | 205 | #568 |
| 1972 | 204 | #562 |
| 1973 | 206 | #547 |
| 1974 | 206 | #559 |
| 1975 | 227 | #532 |
| 1976 | 196 | #584 |
| 1977 | 227 | #552 |
| 1978 | 232 | #544 |
| 1979 | 308 | #468 |
| 1980 | 298 | #490 |
| 1981 | 300 | #482 |
| 1982 | 405 | #414 |
| 1983 | 348 | #446 |
| 1984 | 409 | #408 |
| 1985 | 456 | #396 |
| 1986 | 777 | #275 |
| 1987 | 835 | #262 |
| 1988 | 887 | #265 |
| 1989 | 957 | #264 |
| 1990 | 993 | #269 |
| 1991 | 982 | #271 |
| 1992 | 1,018 | #283 |
| 1993 | 1,073 | #269 |
| 1994 | 948 | #288 |
| 1995 | 795 | #326 |
| 1996 | 829 | #318 |
| 1997 | 943 | #296 |
| 1998 | 1,181 | #252 |
| 1999 | 1,053 | #281 |
| 2000 | 1,305 | #257 |
| 2001 | 1,384 | #245 |
| 2002 | 1,416 | #239 |
| 2003 | 1,512 | #228 |
| 2004 | 1,581 | #220 |
| 2005 | 1,755 | #210 |
| 2006 | 1,938 | #201 |
| 2007 | 2,133 | #189 |
| 2008 | 2,360 | #167 |
| 2009 | 2,402 | #161 |
| 2010 | 2,870 | #137 |
| 2011 | 3,359 | #115 |
| 2012 | 3,269 | #111 |
| 2013 | 3,415 | #115 |
| 2014 | 3,691 | #108 |
| 2015 | 3,740 | #107 |
| 2016 | 3,743 | #105 |
| 2017 | 3,631 | #110 |
| 2018 | 3,994 | #98 |
| 2019 | 4,889 | #75 |
| 2020 | 5,300 | #59 |
| 2021 | 5,730 | #55 |
| 2022 | 5,574 | #56 |
| 2023 | 6,589 | #43 |
| 2024 | 6,634 | #37 |
| 2025 | 6,072 | #44 |
How these numbers are counted
Social Security publishes, for every year since 1880, how many babies of each sex were given each name, counting any name given to at least 5. A name’s rank is its place that year among names for the same sex, by number of babies. Names with the same count share a rank here, while Social Security’s own lists break ties alphabetically, so a rank can differ from theirs by a place or two. A name’s share is the number of babies given it divided by all babies of that sex in the data that year, and its peak is the year that share was highest. Shares rather than counts set the peak, because far more babies were born in some years than others: counting babies alone would pull nearly every name’s peak toward the 1946–1964 baby boom.
Source: the U.S. Social Security Administration’s national baby name data, from Social Security card applications for babies born in the U.S. A name is left out of a year when fewer than 5 babies of one sex got it, and counts before about 1937 are incomplete, because many people born then never applied for a card. See how Baby Boom builds its data. Figures may contain errors.