Myla

Where Myla comes from

The dictionaries list Myla as a given name — a female given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1913
    First appearance
    #2,540 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1971
    Myla Goldberg born
    American novelist
  3. 2023
    Peak, #181
    1,646 babies named Myla — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Myla Goldberg · American novelist, born 1971

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.