girls:
322 births since 1927
#5394 (6th percentile)
boys:
110.1k births since 1880
#287 (94th percentile)
overall:
110.4k births since 1880
#631 (92nd percentile)
The name Miles is the #631 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 110,415 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 91.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 91.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #287 (93.8% percentile) for all time with 110,093 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,394 (5.6% percentile) for all time with 322 births since 1927.
Miles has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1927 for girls).
The name Miles has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Miles reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 95.5% percentile (ranked #42) with 3,581 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 3,581 births per million (ranked 95.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1997, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Miles is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #42 (95.5% percentile) with 3,581 births per million.
For girls, Miles reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 1.8% percentile (ranked #930) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 13 births per million (ranked 1.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Miles is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #930 (1.8% percentile) with 13 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Miles".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Miles. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 76.1% confident that Miles is pronounced as mailz, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MAI-uhlz, at 13.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like M AY1 L Z) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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