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).
Miles was an early family name of the McInnes's of Leitir Fura in Sleat, Isle of Skye possibly derived from them having been soldiers of Macdonald pf Sleat.
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 James, United States soldier
- 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 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 Quaritch, the central antagonist of Avatar and its sequels
- 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
- Major Miles, a character in the manga series Fullmetal Alchemist
See also
References
- ^ "Miles on BabyNamer" Archived 2008-02-09 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Origin and Meaning of the Name Miles"
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