Given name & surname
Myles
“one who is merciful”·“a soldier”
Myles is a variant of Miles. Interpretations include “one who is merciful” and “a soldier”. These belong to different or overlapping naming contexts.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Myles is a variant of Miles. Interpretations include “one who is merciful” and “a soldier”. These belong to different or overlapping naming contexts.
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Myles comes from Germanic, and ultimately from Germanic languages.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In English use, Myles is used as a spelling variant of Miles. In Irish use, Myles is used as a form of Gaelic.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1887. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Myles through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 64,837
- 64,512 boys · 325 girls
- Most popular year
- 2024
- 3,578 babies
- 2025
- 3,529
- #100 for boys · #6,481 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +51%
- Rising fast
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 3,511 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 100 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 51.5% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. It also appeared in 18 birth records for girls in 2025. In 2025, California had the largest reported state-level birth count for boys with this name (267). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 38,830 as a first name in 2020; 13,774 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Myles’s family of names
Myles has an affectionate form in Milo. Myles has a feminine form in Myla. In English usage, Myles has an alternative spelling in Miles.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Myles
- Myles Lewis-SkellyEnglish footballer (born 2006)
- Myles KennedyAmerican singer and guitaristborn 1969
- Myles AmineSammarinese-American wrestlerborn 1996
- Myles TurnerAmerican basketball player (born 1996)
- Myles CoverdaleEnglish bishop and Bible translator1488–1569
- Myles GarrettAmerican football player (born 1995)
- Myles PollardAustralian actorborn 1972
- Myles SmithBritish singerborn 1998
- Myles JeffreyAmerican actorborn 1990
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Appears in
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