Mylan
Masculine · “dear”
Mylan is given to both — 1,442 boys and 433 girls since 1880. See other names given to both
Mylan is a French and Slavic name at once — Milan, from the Slavic mil, dear — and it is also an Italian city whose name means the middle of the plain.
How old is the name Mylan?
Mylan first appears in US birth records in 1932 — 93 years ago. The typical Mylan is a kid of about 11 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,400 people named Mylan are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Mylan most popular?
Mylan peaked in 2024, reaching #1709 nationally. Today it ranks #1826, 117 places below that high. See the whole 2024 chart.
Where it comes from
From mil to Mylan
The story of Mylan
Milan is among the most-used Czech, Slovak and Serbian names, built on the mil element that closes Ludmila and Miroslav. The Italian city's name is separate, from a Celtic settlement Romanised as Mediolanum. Mylan is a French-influenced respelling and appears in American records rising in the 2010s.
Meaningscholars disagree
dear, gracious; middle of the plain
Two routes. From the Slavic mil, 'dear' or 'gracious', through Milan, a standard Czech and Serbian name. Or from the Italian city Milano, whose Latin Mediolanum is read as 'the middle of the plain'. The two are unrelated and both feed the modern spelling.
How the name formed
- mil
- Milan
- Mylan
Related forms: Milan · Milan · Mylan
Pronouncing Mylan
MY-lun
Two syllables, stress on the first. Slavic Milan is MEE-lan; the Italian city is mi-LAN in English.
Nicknames for Mylan
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1932
- Most boys named
- 202497 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1709reached in 2024
- Change vs 2024
- −10.3%87 in 2025, from 97
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Mylan in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Milan in Czech — related form
- Milan in Serbian — related form
- Mylan in French — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Ohio, Florida, Texas.
Mylans among us
people named Mylan are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 19,633 born in 2025 was named Mylan
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Mylan
- #1826
- Mylan on the 2025 chart
- #234
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Mylan went to 87 boys in 2025, but Milan and Millan are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 1,525, which makes it the 234th most-given boys’ name of the year — 1,592 places above the chart.
- Milan1,418
- Mylan87
- Millan20
About 1 boy in 1,120 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 19,633 for Mylan itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Shaine test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Mylan's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Shaine climbed just as high around 1987, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Shaine's path sketches the road Mylan is walking now.
Mylan is climbing fast right now. Steep climbs tend to come with steep descents — the quicker a name arrives, the more firmly it belongs to its moment.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Mylan is headed
Mylan looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 34% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Mylan beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Mylan in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The dear meaning is transparent where the Slavic route holds.
- Two genuine traditions can claim it, Slavic and Italian.
- Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk.
- The origin is genuinely split between two unrelated sources.
- Milan is the standard spelling in both traditions.
- A pharmaceutical company carries the Mylan spelling.
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Frequently asked
- How many Mylans are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,400 people named Mylan are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Mylan?
- Mylan is one of 3 recorded spellings. Milan is the more common one — 1,418 births in 2025 against 87 for Mylan.
- How popular is the name Mylan in 2025?
- Mylan ranks #1826 among US boy names in 2025, with 87 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Mylan?
- About 1 in every 19,633 US boys born in 2025 was named Mylan — 87 in all.
- Will my child share the name Mylan with classmates?
- Mylan will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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