Miley Is Not in the Bible — the Name Is Forty Years Old

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  • Miley is not in the Bible and is only about forty years old. It began as a family nickname — Destiny Hope Cyrus smiled constantly as a baby, was called Smiley, and it shortened to Miley.
  • Before that it existed only as a rare surname and an occasional variant of Miles or Millie.
  • Destiny is not a biblical idea; Scripture has providence, which is a person attending to us rather than a mechanism. Hope it treats carefully — Romans 8:24 defines it as being about what cannot yet be seen.
  • Gladness is no small thing to be named for: Proverbs 17:22 and Philippians 4:4, the latter written from a prison cell.
  • No name is holy because of its spelling. Peter’s name was his second, and Paul used two his whole life.

Miley is not in the Bible, and it is not really an old name at all. It is about forty years old, and it began as a joke between a father and his daughter. Where the name Miley comes from The name entered wide use through Miley Cyrus, who was born Destiny Hope Cyrus in 1992. She smiled constantly as a baby, so her father called her Smiley, which shortened to Miley. She took it legally as an adult. Before…

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Sources: Behind the Name entry for Miley (popularised by Miley Cyrus, born Destiny Hope Cyrus, from the nickname “Smiley”); Scripture quotations from the NIV via BibleGateway (Romans 8:24; Proverbs 17:22; Philippians 4:4).

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