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Miles

English form of Milo, Latin and Old German,"soldier or merciful"
"soldier or merciful"
Brynn McKeon
By Brynn McKeon
Updated Mon Jul 14 2025

Miles Origin and Meaning

The name Miles is a boy's name of English, Latin origin meaning "soldier or merciful".

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.

# 37 in the US

Miles Rank in US Top 1000

# 40 on Nameberry

Miles Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

Popularity of the name Miles

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Famous People Named Miles

  • 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

The name 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."

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