girls:
422 births since 1921
#5294 (7th percentile)
boys:
37.8k births since 1880
#579 (87th percentile)
overall:
38.3k births since 1880
#1273 (84th percentile)
The name Milo is the #1,273 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 38,251 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 83.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 83.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #579 (87.4% percentile) for all time with 37,829 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,294 (7.4% percentile) for all time with 422 births since 1921.
Milo has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1921 for girls).
The name Milo has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Milo reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 87.5% percentile (ranked #116) with 1,658 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 1,658 births per million (ranked 87.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1995, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Milo is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #118 (87.1% percentile) with 1,611 births per million.
For girls, Milo reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 4.4% percentile (ranked #916) with 26 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 26 births per million (ranked 4.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2007, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Milo ranks #918 for girls (3.1% percentile) with 19 births per million, which is 74.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Milo".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Milo. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 67.3% confident that Milo is pronounced as MAI-loh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MEE-loh, at 26.5% 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 OW0) 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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