Modern · girl

Myla

A distinctive name with a calm, steady presence.

Rank 2024

#186

Trend

stable

Band

balanced

Styles

short

Meaning

Gracious or merciful; modern blend

Myla is a balanced girl name with Modern roots. In 2024, 1,624 newborns in the U.S. were given the name — ranking it #186 nationally, and its popularity has held steady in recent years. Its style leans short — tags you can match against your partner's picks in the combiner.

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About Modern names

Modern names are the newcomers — coined, blended, or respelled within living memory rather than inherited from an old language. Some fuse two familiar names, some borrow surname or word sounds, and some simply chase a feeling: Jayden, Kylie, Nevaeh. What they trade in history they gain in freshness, and today's invention is often tomorrow's classic — plenty of traditional names started exactly this way.

Meaning and origin are editorial; U.S. popularity comes from Social Security Administration public files.

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