Myles
given name · Latin script
Meaning: (i) from the Anglo-Norman male personal name Miles, from Germanic Milo; (ii) servant, from Latin miles 'soldier'; (iii) son of Miliel, an Old French contracted form of Michael
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/majlz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Myles is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 8.6K(measured from records)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 13K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 15K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 437 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.6K (inferred from the name graph)
38,830 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- GermanicMilo(measured from records)
- Latinmiles(measured from records)
(i) from the Anglo-Norman male personal name Miles, from Germanic Milo; (ii) servant, from Latin miles 'soldier'; (iii) son of Miliel, an Old French contracted form of Michael
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Myles counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 38,830 | 1 in 8.6K | 39K | Myles | 437 |
| GB United Kingdom | #950 | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 15K | 609 | Myles | 202 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 18K | 61 | Myles | 195 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 176 | Myles | 155 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 96K | — | Myles | 62 |
| IE Ireland | #488 | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Myles | 79 |
| NZ New Zealand | #734 | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 49 | Myles | 73 |
38,830 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; ONS — Baby names England and Wales (2024); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Myles is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Alternative spelling of Miles; used by Brian O’Nolan as the pen-name Myles na Gopaleen.
as a nameIrish first names
An alternative spelling of Miles. Brian O’Nolan (1911-66) used the pen-name Myles na Gopaleen — a name originally created by Dion Boucicault (1822-90) — for a number of his works and for his Irish Times column.
as a nameIrish first names
variant of Miles. IJ»l:l=l4J4':g! This spelling of the name is used by many descendants of the 17th-century MA Baptist minister John Miles or Myles (see Miles).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, A male given name from the Germanic languages. Alternative spelling of Miles, a less common one.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Latin: soldier
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Milo of Crotonb. 550ITnot in their usual name6th-century BC wrestler from the Magna Graecian city of Croton
- Milo O'Sheab. 1926IEnot in their usual nameIrish American actor (1926-2013)
- Milo Manarab. 1945ITnot in their usual nameItalian comic creator (born 1945)
- Milo Đukanovićb. 1962MEnot in their usual name2nd President of Montenegro
- Myles Kennedyb. 1969USAmerican singer and guitarist
- Milo Ventimigliab. 1977USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor
- Milo Yiannopoulosb. 1984GBnot in their usual nameBritish political commentator
- Milo Gibsonb. 1990AUnot in their usual nameAustralian-American actor
- Myles Turnerb. 1996USAmerican basketball player (born 1996)
- Milo Parkerb. 2002GBnot in their usual nameBritish actor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 60 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 14K | #2,591 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 14K | #2,557 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 12K | #2,689 |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Myles a male or female name?
- Myles is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Myles mean, and where does it come from?
- (i) from the Anglo-Norman male personal name Miles, from Germanic Milo; (ii) servant, from Latin miles 'soldier'; (iii) son of Miliel, an Old French contracted form of Michael Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- What are other forms of the name Myles?
- In the etymology graph, Milo and Mylo are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Myles have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 39 thousand people named Myles, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled myles.
- Where is Myles most common?
- Myles is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 8.6 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Myles?
- In the United States, the national register counted 38,830 people named Myles in 2020, about 1 in 8.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Myles compared with other names?
- In Ireland, Myles is the 488th most common given name of 14,976 given names recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Myles?
- A machine transcription gives /majlz/ (IPA) for English.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mylesThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Myles” — the 488th most common given name in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.