Entry № 6860 · American origin

Miley Miley — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MY-lee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
American
Meaning
"Smiley (Miley Cyrus, Grammy + Hannah Montana)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (American)

A name that means "smiley (miley cyrus, grammy + hannah montana)".

Miley is a modern American name — invented as a contraction of "Smiley" by Miley Cyrus's family (her birth name was Destiny Hope Cyrus, and "Smiley" was her father Billy Ray's nickname for her). A top-500 US baby name since 2007.

Smiley (Miley Cyrus, Grammy + Hannah Montana) — a American name.

The name in its native script.

Miley
Transliteration
Miley
Pronunciation
/ ˈmaɪ.li /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Miley stands.

Miley does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Mileys before her.

Real people
Miley Cyrus
American Grammy-winning singer.
born 1992
In fiction
Hannah Montana
Played by Miley Cyrus.
2006

Names connected to Miley.

The number behind Miley.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Miley reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.