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How popular is the name Miles?
Births per year, rank history and how many Mileses are alive today.
Miles (male) sits just outside the top 100 boys' names in England and Wales, ranked 114th in 2025 with 474 babies given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 2021, when 533 babies were given the name, the 111th most popular that year. It has risen strongly over the past decade. At least 9,600 babies have been named Miles in England and Wales since 1996. Miles is one spelling of a name also recorded as Myles; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Miles you are most likely to meet is around 2 years old. Half of all Mileses born in England and Wales are between 5 and 25, and there are at least 21,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's roughly a 6.7% chance that at least one of them will be called Miles.
How many babies are named Miles each year?
Includes all spellings: Miles, Myles. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Miles spelling rank?
Where does the Myles spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Miles most popular?
Miles peaked in 2025, when 1,238 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Miles?
At least 21,000 people named Miles in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Miles?
Most living Mileses are between 5 and 25; the most common age is about 2.
Is Miles becoming more or less popular?
Rising: it has climbed strongly over the past decade.