Miles
2025 SSA
2025 SSA
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 for boys#44 US
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.
Miles for girls#8191 US
Although usually seen as a masculine name, Miles is sometimes seen as a feminine name in Australia, due to its literary association with female author Stella "Miles" Franklin. The s ending makes it especially trendy.
Pronounced MYLZ.
As of October 2026, Miles ranked #44 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #37 in 2024, Nameberry popularity #32.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank · boys | Births · boys | US rank · girls | Births · girls |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #108 | 3,690 | — | 0 |
| 2015 | #107 | 3,740 | — | 0 |
| 2016 | #105 | 3,743 | — | 0 |
| 2017 | #110 | 3,631 | — | 0 |
| 2018 | #98 | 3,992 | — | 0 |
| 2019 | #75 | 4,889 | — | 0 |
| 2020 | #59 | 5,300 | — | 0 |
| 2021 | #55 | 5,727 | — | 0 |
| 2022 | #56 | 5,568 | — | 0 |
| 2023 | #43 | 6,581 | — | 0 |
| 2024 | #37 | 6,611 | — | 0 |
| 2025 | #44 | 6,072 | — | 0 |
World rankings
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Miles on lists
Famous Miless
- Miles Dewey Davis IIIBoy
American jazz musician
- Miles Peter KaneBoy
English musician
- Miles AustinBoy
American football player
- Miles TellerBoy
American actor
- Miles HeizerBoy
American actor
- Miles WheelerBoy
American singer
- Miles JuppBoy
English comedian and actor
- Miles McMillanBoy
American model, actor, and painter
- Miles Gilbert "Tim" HortonBoy
Canadian former NHL ice hockey player
- Miles LunaBoy
Rooster Teeth Employee
- Miles McKennaBoy
aka MilesChronicles, American YouTuber
- Miles WilliamBoy
son of American actress Elisabeth Shue
- Miles Roosevelt (b. 2005)Boy
son of American actress Mayim Bialik
- Miles Xavier (b. 2006)Boy
son of American film and television actor Larenz Tate
- Miles Robert (b. 2011)Boy
son of American actor Glenn Howerton.
- Miles (b. 2012)Boy
son of Frank Iero of My Chemical Romance
- Miles Macklin Colonomos (b. 2018)Boy
son of American television personality Ginger Zee, brother to Adrian Benjamin
- Miles Theodore Stephens (b. 2018)Boy
son of singer John Legend and model Chrissy Teigen
- (Stella Marie Sarah) Miles FranklinGirl
Australian Author
Miles in pop culture
- Miles O'BrienBoy
character from "Star Trek"
- Miles "BabyBoy
" character from the movie "Baby Driver"
- Miles EdgeworthBoy
from "Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney"
- Miles RussellBoy
character from the movie "Uncle Buck" played by Macaulay Culkin
- Miles RaymondBoy
main character in movie "Sideways"
- Miles VaughnBoy
Tuck's best friend on "Flash Forward"
- Miles "Tails" ProwerBoy
fox sidekick from "Sonic the Hedgehog"
- Miles HendonBoy
later Earl of Kent, rescuer and friend to the Prince of Wales in "The Prince and the Pauper" (1882) by Mark Twain
- Major MilesBoy
a Fort Briggs soldier in Hiromu Arawakawa's manga "Fullmetal Alchemist"
- Miles MollisonBoy
character of "The Casual Vacancy" by J. K. Rowling
- Miles TuckBoy
character from the book, movie and musical "Tuck Everlasting"
- Miles FowlBoy
character in "Artemis Fowl" series
- Miles MathesonBoy
a character in "Revolution"
- Miles "Pudge" HalterBoy
main character of "Looking for Alaska" by John Green
- Miles MoralesBoy
a fictional superhero who appears in Marvel Comics, as one of the characters who goes by the identity of Spider,Man.
- Miles MalpracticeBoy
bright young thing in "Vile Bodies" (1930) by Evelyn Waugh
- Miles Hollingsworth IIIBoy
character on TV show "Degrassi, the Next Generation"
- Miles FisherBoy
a character in the "Fallen" series (Lauren Kate)
- Miles CallistoBoy
a character in the TV show "Miles from Tomorrowland"
- Miles UpshurBoy
protagonist in the video game "Outlast"
- Miles LennoxBoy
character in Disney's "Backstage"
- Miles LionheartBoy
cat farm hand from the webcomic "Las Lindas"
- Miles SilverbergBoy
a character in the TV series "Murphy Brown"
- Miles LeonardBoy
a character in the NBC television series "A.P. Bio."
- Miles “Spider” SoccoroGirl
Character from “Avatar”
Variations & nicknames
- MylesBoy