Miles

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Miles: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Miles: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #62, and it was still inside the top 100 in 2025.

6registrars recorded it
65times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#62highest recorded position
11groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#154
1997	#146
1998	#130
1999	#142
2000	#146
2001	#150
2002	#142
2003	#173
2004	#184
2005	#179
2006	#181
2007	#183
2008	#184
2009	#197
2010	#191
2011	#185
2012	#185
2013	#180
2014	#161
2015	#168
2016	#179
2017	#193
2018	#170
2019	#147
2020	#144
2021	#111
2022	#112
2023	#106
2024	#104

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2025: #68 among boys in New South Wales, Australia, #211 among boys in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 6 national registrars across 6 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #154 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2023–2025
Highest recorded position: #62 among boys in New South Wales, Australia, in 2023 (recorded 2023–2025).
New South Wales, Australia · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #68 among boys in New South Wales, Australia, in 2025.
New South Wales, Australia · Boys

Miles appears in 5 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 9,160 births with the name.

Miles across 5 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Miles's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#154 (1996)	#104 (2024)	#104 (2024)	29 of 29	9,160 (1996–2024)	533 (2021)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#500 (2003)	#204 (2021)	#211 (2025)	17 of 23	187 (2003–2025)	25 (2021)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#398 (2013)	#207 (2022)	#239 (2024)	12 of 12	59 (2013–2024)	10 (2022)
New South Wales, Australia · Boys	#62 (2023)	#62 (2023)	#68 (2025)	3 of 3	360 (2023–2025)	122 (2024)
New Zealand · Boys	#91 (2021)	#74 (2023)	#74 (2023)	3 of 3	161 (2021–2023)	57 (2023)

Miles by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Miles in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	1,014	4 of 10	254
2000s	2,527	10 of 10	253
2010s	3,205	10 of 10	321
2020sbusiest	2,414	5 of 10	483

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 483 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2020 and 2021, when recorded births rose by 143, from 390 to 533.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Miles appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 6 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #62 in New South Wales, Australia in 2024.

Miles's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#104	507	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#106	502	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#112	482	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#111	533	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#144	390	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#147	381	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#170	326	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#193	281	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#179	319	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#168	347	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#161	356	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#180	313	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#185	301	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#185	303	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#191	278	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#197	243	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#184	263	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#183	264	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#181	249	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#179	248	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#184	222	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#173	227	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#142	298	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#150	261	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#146	252	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#142	245	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#130	302	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#146	244	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#154	223	High	Verified
2025	New South Wales, Australia	male	#68	117	Insufficient	Not yet available
2024	New South Wales, Australia	male	#62	122	Insufficient	Not yet available
2023	New South Wales, Australia	male	#62	121	Insufficient	Not yet available
2023	New Zealand	male	#74	57	High	Verified
2022	New Zealand	male	#98	49	High	Verified
2021	New Zealand	male	#91	55	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	male	#239	8	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	male	#348	4	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	male	#207	10	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	male	#433	3	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	male	#392	3	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	male	#365	4	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	male	#319	5	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	male	#363	4	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	male	#358	4	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	male	#237	8	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	male	#398	3	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	male	#398	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#211	22	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#231	19	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#215	22	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#239	20	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#204	25	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#324	13	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#322	13	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	male	#329	12	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	male	#547	5	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	male	#541	5	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	male	#699	3	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	male	#479	6	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	male	#548	5	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	male	#540	5	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	male	#491	6	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	male	#701	3	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	male	#500	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#114	45	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New South Wales, Australia hub — collected by NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages
New Zealand hub — collected by NZ Department of Internal Affairs
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 6 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #62, first reached in 2023.

It held a top-100 place in 5 years, 5 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 533 births, registered in England and Wales in 2021.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2003, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Milen · #2660, 12y
Milena · #193, 55y
Miley · #79, 27y
Miley-Mae · #2488, 15y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 6 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Brayden · #59, 30y
Chase · #59, 29y
Fletcher · #65, 30y
Mateo · #65, 31y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Tomine · #62, 31y
Brooklyn · #61, 30y
Cheyenne · #63, 29y
Darcy · #61, 30y

Miles was ranked #62 in New South Wales, Australia · Boys in 2023. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Miles and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Miles without appearing here.

Miles moved ahead of

Geoffrey Compare
In 2021 they stood at #699 and #699 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2022 that had become #239 and #779.
Kristian Compare
In 2017 they stood at #547 and #443 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2018 that had become #329 and #749.
Kasper Compare
In 2018 they stood at #547 and #547 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2019 that had become #322 and #646.
Mathias Compare
In 2018 they stood at #699 and #615 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2019 that had become #322 and #646.

Moved ahead of Miles

Muhammad Compare
In 2015 they stood at #237 and #314 in Northern Ireland · Boys; by 2016 that had become #358 and #253.
Freddie Compare
In 2002 they stood at #142 and #152 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2003 that had become #173 and #117.
Lucas Compare
In 1998 they stood at #130 and #134 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1999 that had become #142 and #100.
Albie Compare
In 2012 they stood at #185 and #188 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2013 that had become #180 and #139.

Moved the opposite way to Miles

Aaron Compare
Between 2003 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Miles went from #500 to #211 while Aaron went from #13 to #71.
Adam Compare
Between 2003 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Miles went from #500 to #211 while Adam went from #3 to #20.
Adrian Compare
Between 2003 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Miles went from #500 to #211 while Adrian went from #177 to #348.
Alan Compare
Between 2003 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Miles went from #500 to #211 while Alan went from #71 to #232.

Moved the same way as Miles

Alfie Compare
Between 2003 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Miles went from #500 to #211 and Alfie from #305 to #36.
Arthur Compare
Between 2003 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Miles went from #500 to #211 and Arthur from #214 to #57.
Caleb Compare
Between 2003 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Miles went from #500 to #211 and Caleb from #228 to #108.
Charlie Compare
Between 2003 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Miles went from #500 to #211 and Charlie from #79 to #13.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 6 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #62 in New South Wales, Australia in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Miles

Miles at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Miles across 5 official records

Miles by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Miles appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Miles

Miles and the names beside it

Miles moved ahead of

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Miles at a glance

Miles across 5 official records

Miles by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Miles appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Miles

Miles and the names beside it

Miles moved ahead of

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Moved the opposite way to Miles

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