Myla
Meaning
modern feminine coinage, variant of Myles
The story
Myla wears the label modern coinage in our meaning records, a feminine take on Myles, and the label undersells a quiet century: the record shows Mylas in every decade since the 1910s, forty-five here, two hundred there, small but never zero. What is genuinely modern is the scale. About 430 in the 1990s became 2,700 in the 2000s, then 8,900 in the 2010s, with 8,800 so far this decade, nearly the full 2010s total with years to run. The sound explains it: Myla sits in the soft-l corridor between Mila, Miley and Lila that this century keeps returning to. One figure is absolute: across more than a century of records, not one boy, 22,100 girls to zero. An old flicker, a new wave, and a name that proves coinages sometimes have grandmothers.
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Myla peaked in the 2020s.
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Popularity in Brazil
254 people · the #21,447 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 1,000,000 · median age 19
Among people named Myla living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 2000s than in any other decade.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
When you meet Myla
Most people given the name Myla in the United States are children or teenagers today. The name belongs to this generation.
Estimated from US Social Security birth registrations and typical lifespans; a rough guide, not a rule.
The Myla deep dive
Whether you’re naming a baby or exploring your own name’s history, this is a personal letter, not a list: where Myla truly comes from, how it traveled, and what a century of records reveals. If you have grown a tree on nametree, it also considers how Myla fits with your family’s names and surname.
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