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Mylin

Gender
Mostly boys
Say it
MY-lan
Origin
Slavic
US rank, 2025
#6,799 for boys

Mylin is a name of Slavic origin, meaning “dear, gracious”. In 2025 it ranked 6,799th for boys in the US (12 babies).

What does Mylin mean?

Slavic: spelling of Mylan, itself a spelling of Milan

“dear, gracious”

A respelling of Milan, a Slavic name from mil, 'dear', which also matches the Italian city.

Meaning borrowed from Mylan.

Is Mylin a girl's or a boy's name?

In recent years, Mylin has been given to girls and boys, mostly boys. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls and 12 boys in the US.

How popular is Mylin in the US?

Rank in 2025
6,799th among boys
Babies in 2025
12 about 1 in 140,000 boys
Five-year trend
Too rare to call too few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 12 boys in the US were named Mylin, making it the 6,799th most popular name for boys. Its busiest year was 2018, with 12 boys. It first appears in the records in 2005. 7 girls were also named Mylin in 2025 (11,928th for girls).

2025 had more boys named Mylin than any year since 2018.

Half of all the boys named Mylin in the US since 1880 were born between 2013 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 129 boys in the US were given Mylin or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,281, up from #6,799 for this spelling alone.

2005Busiest: 12 in 20182025
Mylin in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202512#6,799
20249#8,307
20237#9,757
20229#8,293
20210–
20200–
20190–
201812#6,699
20178#8,835
20160–
20158#8,739
20145#12,102
20139#8,113
20120–
20110–
20109#8,133
20090–
20080–
20075#12,361
20065#12,048
20055#11,464

Names like Mylin

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Mylin

Names related to Mylin

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Mylin: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/mylin, updated 20 October 2026.