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Mile

Boys' name

Transliteration of Миле

Mile has been given to 15 babies in the U.S. since 1927. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1927, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Mile, 1978

1 in 635,000

Mile over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mile: meaning, origin, and history

Transliteration of Миле

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mile means

Mile is a transliteration of Миле.

Origin, language, and formation

Mile is used in English, Serbo-Croatian and Walloon.

Mile comes through Macedonian Ми́ле.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Миле, Milivoj and Emile.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Serbo-Croatian, Mile is pronounced /mǐːle/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 15 boys were recorded with the name Mile between 1927 and 1978. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1927; its best national rank was #4,598 in 1927.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Mile?

Mile had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1978, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1978
1 in 635,000
5 of 3,173,639 births
Among boys only
1 in 328,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1978
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
439,961 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mile sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1978 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 439,961 children born in 1978 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mile. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Miles were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mile was born before 1976 — so the typical Mile is around 49 today.

Median birth year
1976
About 49 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
66.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
66.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
10
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1970s — 66.7% of all recorded uses (10).

Is Mile rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1927 (5)
Years since peak
98
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#4,598
1927

Spellings of Mile

Mile is not the most common spelling — Kyle is, with 24.4% against Mile's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Mile around the world

Where Mile ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1964–1985
    #1,952
    in 1985
  • South Australia
    1954–1969
    #510
    in 1969

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Mile by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#4,598
1927
Peak year
1927
5 that year
First recorded
1927
Last recorded
1978
All-time count
15
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Mile

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Mile

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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