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Mylene

#7,037 in 2025Girls' name

From French Mylène; literal meaning unconfirmed

Mylene has been given to 868 babies in the U.S. since 1950. In 2025 it ranked #7,037 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 38 recorded.

Babies named Mylene, 2025

1 in 207,000

Mylene over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mylene: meaning, origin, and history

From French Mylène; literal meaning unconfirmed

French

What Mylene means

Mylene is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Mylene is used in Cebuano. Its origins include French.

Mylene comes through French Mylène.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 868 girls were recorded with the name Mylene between 1950 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 38 in 2017; its best national rank was #2,177 in 1960.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,542 in 2020 to #7,037 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #8,297 in 2015 to #7,037 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Mylene?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,037
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mylene 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mylene. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mylenes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mylene was born before 2001 — so the typical Mylene is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
20.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
50.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
868
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Choose a decade

2010s — 20.4% of all recorded uses (177).

Is Mylene 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
−711
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−495
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,260
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.14×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
42.1%
Peak was 2017 (38)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
41.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,177
1960

Spellings of Mylene

Mylene is not the most common spelling — Arlene is, with 24.1% against Mylene's 0.15%.

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 Mylene is used

Across 1910–2025, Mylene was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 195,129 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Texas1 in —

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. Mylene has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Mylene around the world

Where Mylene 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
    2016–2016
    #5,785
    in 2016
  • France
    1930–2025
    #2,485
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2023
    #3,391
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1959–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS 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.

Mylene by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,037
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 495
Best rank ever
#2,177
1960
Peak year
2017
38 that year
First recorded
1950
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
868
Count in 2025
16

Names similar to Mylene

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

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Sibling names for Mylene

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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