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Mylee

#1,765 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Mylee has been given to 4,420 babies in the U.S. since 1968. In 2025 it ranked #1,765 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 730 recorded.

Babies named Mylee, 2025

1 in 28,800

Mylee over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mylee: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mylee means

Mylee is a given name.

The naming story behind Mylee

Wikidata records Mylee as a unisex given name. The entity identifier is Q115463362, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,420 girls were recorded with the name Mylee between 1968 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 730 in 2008; its best national rank was #436 in 2008.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,113 in 2020 to #1,765 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,186 in 2015 to #1,765 in 2025.

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.

How common is Mylee?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 28,800
115 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 14,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,765
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
19,983 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mylee sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 19,983 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mylee. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mylees were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mylee was born before 2009 — so the typical Mylee is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
47.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
96.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,420
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 47.9% of all recorded uses (2,115).

Is Mylee 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
−246
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+348
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+421
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.32×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
15.8%
Peak was 2008 (730)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#436
2008

Spellings of Mylee

Mylee is not the most common spelling — Kaylee is, with 17.7% against Mylee's 0.56%.

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.

Where Mylee is used

Across 2016–2025, Mylee was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 7,692 girls, against 1 in 24,804 across all states with data. It was least common in Georgia (1 in 100,000).

113 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Kentucky1 in 7,692
  2. 2Ohio1 in 10,000
  3. 3Missouri1 in 11,111
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 in 12,500
  5. 5Alabama1 in 14,286
  6. 6Utah1 in 14,286
  7. 7Minnesota1 in 20,000
  8. 8Iowa1 in 25,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Mylee around the world

Where Mylee 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.

  • England & Wales
    2007–2025
    #2,605
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2009–2020
    #765
    in 2020
  • Northern Ireland
    2010–2010
    #430
    in 2010
  • France
    1995–2016
    #4,116
    in 2016
  • Canada
    2003–2023
    #2,973
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1969–2012
    #431
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Mylee in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Mylee. Linked forms have their own page here.

MileyMylieMayleeMyleen

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Mylee by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,765
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 348
Best rank ever
#436
2008
Peak year
2008
730 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,420
Count in 2025
115

Names similar to Mylee

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

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Names with a curve like Mylee

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Mylee, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Mylee

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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