Miley
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Anglicized form of a Gaelic name, probably O Maol Aodha ‘descendant of Maol Aodha’, a personal name meaning ‘devotee of (Saint) Aodh’ (see McCoy)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/maɪli/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Miley is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 45K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 55K
- CACanada≈1 in 71K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 360 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
7,365 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Ghana, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Anglicized form of a Gaelic name, probably O Maol Aodha ‘descendant of Maol Aodha’, a personal name meaning ‘devotee of (Saint) Aodh’ (see McCoy).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Miley, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Miley counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 7,365 | 1 in 45K | 11K | Miley | 360 |
| GH Ghana | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Miley | 7 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 55K | 21 | Miley | 114 |
| IT Italy | ≈770 est. | ≈1 in 81K | 3 | Miley | 7 |
| CA Canada | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 71K | 9 | Miley | 39 |
| IE Ireland | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Miley | 47 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 38K | 10 | Miley | 4 |
7,365 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Miley is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, var of Milei.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- William M. Mileyb. 1897USAmerican general (1897-1997)
- Bubber Mileyb. 1903USAmerican jazz trumpet and cornet player, composer (1903-1932)
- Henry A. Miley, Jr.b. 1915USUnited States general (1915–2010)
- Peggy Mileyb. 1941USAmerican actress
- Mike Mileyb. 1953USAmerican baseball player (1953-1977)
- Dave Mileyb. 1962USAmerican baseball player, coach, manager
- Wade Mileyb. 1986USBaseball pitcher
- Hannah Mileyb. 1989GBBritish swimmer, Olympic athlete, world champion
- Amia Mileyb. 1990USpornographic performer (b. 1990)
- Lewis Mileyb. 2006GBEnglish association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 65 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 7.4K | #4,797 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 6.9K | #4,677 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 6.7K | #5,054 |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Miley mean, and where does it come from?
- Anglicized form of a Gaelic name, probably O Maol Aodha ‘descendant of Maol Aodha’, a personal name meaning ‘devotee of (Saint) Aodh’ (see McCoy). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Miley?
- A machine transcription gives /maɪli/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Miley have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 7.4 thousand people named Miley, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled miley.
- How common is the name Miley?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,365 people named Miley in 2010, about 1 in 45 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mileyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Miley”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.