Boy
Miles
As a boy's name, Miles traces back to Latin, where it is understood to mean "Latin miles, soldier". It shows no signs of slowing down, reaching new highs in the 2010s. In the current registry, it is a name plenty of people share. Few names stick around this long: it shows up across almost the entire twelve-decade span this registry covers.
LatinLatin "miles" – "soldier"
GermanicAlso Germanic – "mild, gracious"
Births by decade
1900s
413
1910s
1,583
1920s
2,345
1930s
1,658
1940s
1,994
1950s
3,175
1960s
2,835
1970s
2,252
1980s
5,700
1990s
9,832
2000s
17,839
2010s
27,736
Peaked in the 2010s · 77,362 total U.S. births since 1900