Miles (given name)
Miles /ˈmaɪlz/ is a male name from the Latin miles, a soldier.[1][2] The medieval knight was called miles in Medieval Latin, while in Classical Latin, miles meant simply soldier of any sort, including infantry.
Miles Gloriosus, whose name means "boastful soldier", was a comic stock character in classical Roman drama.
Miles has several variant forms, some of which offer their own derivations: Milan, Milo, Milos, Myles and Mylo.
Myles in Ireland may well derive from the Gaelic names Maol Íosa (devotee of Jesus) or Maol Mhuire (devotee of Mary).
People with the name
- Miles (bishop of Susa) (d. c. 340)
- Miles of Gloucester, 1st Earl of Hereford (d. 1143)
- Miles of Plancy (d. 1174), Crusader knight
- Miles de Cogan (fl. 1170s), Anglo-Norman knight
- Miles de Angulo (fl. 1250s), Anglo-Irish knight
- Miles of Marseilles (b. c. 1294), Jewish physician
- Miles de Noyers (d. 1350), French diplomat
- Miles Aiken, American basketball player
- Miles Austin, American football player
- Miles Berkeley, British botanist and clergyman
- Miles Boykin (born 1996), American football player
- Miles Brown (American football) (born 1997), American football player
- Miles Browning, United States Navy admiral
- Miles Dempsey, British Army general
- Miles Davis, American jazz trumpeter
- Miles Fleetwood, English politician
- Miles Franklin, Australian author
- Miles Heizer (born 1994), American actor
- Miles Holmwood, Canadian guitarist and record producer
- Miles Kane, English musician
- Miles Lord, American jurist
- Miles Malleson, English actor and screenwriter
- Miles Mander, English actor
- Miles Mikolas, American baseball player
- Miles E. Mills, American politician
- Miles Nightingall, British army officer
- Miles Partridge, English courtier
- Miles Plumlee, American basketball player
- Miles Sanders (born 1997), American football player
- Miles Sandys, English politician
- Miles Standish, military leader of the Plymouth Colony of pilgrims
- Miles Stapleton of Bedale, English knight
- Miles Teller, American actor
- Miles Thomas, British businessman
- Miles Walker, Manx politician
- Miles Warren, New Zealand architect
Fictional
- "Baby", protagonist in the film Baby Driver whose real name is Miles
- Miles, a mule character in the animated movie Barnyard
- Miles, a character in the animated series The Ridonculous Race
- Miles Archer, character in the novel The Maltese Falcon and its adaptations
- Miles Axlerod, character and main antagonist of Cars 2
- Miles Callisto, character in the animated television series Miles from Tomorrowland
- Miles Bennett Dyson, character in the film Terminator 2: Judgment Day
- Miles Edgeworth, character in the Ace Attorney series
- Miles Hendon, character in the novel The Prince and the Pauper and its adaptations
- Miles Hollingsworth, character in the television series Degrassi: The Next Generation
- M (James Bond), character in the James Bond novels whose real name is Sir Miles Messervy
- Miles Lennox, character in the television series Backstage
- Miles Morales, Spider-Man, successor to Peter Parker in Ultimate Spider-Man after Peter dies in battle
- Miles Mayhem, antagonist of the animated television series M.A.S.K.
- Miles Matheson, protagonist of the television series Revolution
- Miles O'Brien (Star Trek), character in the Star Trek universe
- Miles Papazian, character in the television series 24
- Miles "Tails" Prower, fox character in the Sonic the Hedgehog series
- Miles Silverberg, character in the television series Murphy Brown
- Miles Straume, character in the television series Lost
- Miles Teg, character in the Dune universe
- Miles Upshur, character in the video game Outlast
- Miles Vorkosigan, character in the Vorkosigan Saga novels and stories
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References
- "Miles on BabyNamer" Archived 2008-02-09 at the Wayback Machine
- "Origin and Meaning of the Name Miles"
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