Miles
Top 1000
About Miles
Miles, which has a permanent veneer of cool thanks to jazz great Miles Davis, is a confident and polished boys' name that's an American classic. Always ranking in the US Top 1000, it's been drifting up the charts for the past half century and now ranks at its highest point ever, in the Top 50.
Miles is a favorite of celebrity baby namers, given to their sons by Elisabeth Shue, Mayim Bialik, Larenz Tate, Joan Cusack and Lionel Ritchie. It also makes a great honor name for all the Grandpa Michaels out there.
Miles was the name of the first translator of the Bible into English--the English monk Miles Coverdale, which is also the name of a character in Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance. Miles Hendon figures in Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper, and Miles was one of the young children in Henry James's The Turn of the Screw. Miles--or Myles--Standish was the leader of the Pilgrim fathers.
Miles has also been a favorite movie and TV character name from the days of Murphy Brown to 24 and Avatar.
Pronounced MYLZ.
As of October 2026, Miles ranked #44 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #37 in 2024, Nameberry popularity #30.
Editor's take: The name Miles is a boy's name of English, Latin origin meaning "soldier or merciful".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #108 | 3,690 | 1,921 |
| 2015 | #107 | 3,740 | 1,951.2 |
| 2016 | #105 | 3,743 | 1,972.3 |
| 2017 | #110 | 3,631 | 1,961.7 |
| 2018 | #98 | 3,992 | 2,198 |
| 2019 | #75 | 4,889 | 2,724.9 |
| 2020 | #59 | 5,300 | 3,070.5 |
| 2021 | #55 | 5,727 | 3,273.5 |
| 2022 | #56 | 5,568 | 3,189 |
| 2023 | #43 | 6,581 | 3,847.2 |
| 2024 | #37 | 6,611 | 3,837.2 |
| 2025 | #44 | 6,072 | 3,554.9 |
World rankings
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Miles on lists
Famous Miless
- Miles Dewey Davis III
American jazz musician
- Miles Peter Kane
English musician
- Miles Austin
American football player
- Miles Teller
American actor
- Miles Heizer
American actor
- Miles Wheeler
American singer
- Miles Jupp
English comedian and actor
- Miles McMillan
American model, actor, and painter
- Miles Gilbert "Tim" Horton
Canadian former NHL ice hockey player
- Miles Luna
Rooster Teeth Employee
- Miles McKenna
aka MilesChronicles, American YouTuber
- Miles William
son of American actress Elisabeth Shue
- Miles Roosevelt (b. 2005)
son of American actress Mayim Bialik
- Miles Xavier (b. 2006)
son of American film and television actor Larenz Tate
- Miles Robert (b. 2011)
son of American actor Glenn Howerton.
- Miles (b. 2012)
son of Frank Iero of My Chemical Romance
- Miles Macklin Colonomos (b. 2018)
son of American television personality Ginger Zee, brother to Adrian Benjamin
- Miles Theodore Stephens (b. 2018)
son of singer John Legend and model Chrissy Teigen
Miles in pop culture
- Miles O'Brien
character from "Star Trek"
- Miles "Baby
" character from the movie "Baby Driver"
- Miles Edgeworth
from "Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney"
- Miles Russell
character from the movie "Uncle Buck" played by Macaulay Culkin
- Miles Raymond
main character in movie "Sideways"
- Miles Vaughn
Tuck's best friend on "Flash Forward"
- Miles "Tails" Prower
fox sidekick from "Sonic the Hedgehog"
- Miles Hendon
later Earl of Kent, rescuer and friend to the Prince of Wales in "The Prince and the Pauper" (1882) by Mark Twain
- Major Miles
a Fort Briggs soldier in Hiromu Arawakawa's manga "Fullmetal Alchemist"
- Miles Mollison
character of "The Casual Vacancy" by J. K. Rowling
- Miles Tuck
character from the book, movie and musical "Tuck Everlasting"
- Miles Fowl
character in "Artemis Fowl" series
- Miles Matheson
a character in "Revolution"
- Miles "Pudge" Halter
main character of "Looking for Alaska" by John Green
- Miles Morales
a fictional superhero who appears in Marvel Comics, as one of the characters who goes by the identity of Spider,Man.
- Miles Malpractice
bright young thing in "Vile Bodies" (1930) by Evelyn Waugh
- Miles Hollingsworth III
character on TV show "Degrassi, the Next Generation"
- Miles Fisher
a character in the "Fallen" series (Lauren Kate)
- Miles Callisto
a character in the TV show "Miles from Tomorrowland"
- Miles Upshur
protagonist in the video game "Outlast"
- Miles Lennox
character in Disney's "Backstage"
- Miles Lionheart
cat farm hand from the webcomic "Las Lindas"
- Miles Silverberg
a character in the TV series "Murphy Brown"
- Miles Leonard
a character in the NBC television series "A.P. Bio."