Meaning not yet researched.
Miah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 144 in 2025. Its best rank was #585 in 2013.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #585 in 2013; #1,490 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Miah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,490 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2013, at #585.
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Miah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 144 girls in 2025. Peak: #585 in 2013 · most girls in one year: 499 (2012).
In 2025, 144 US girls were named Miah, making it the 1,490th most common girls’ name of the year, down 406 places from #1,084 in 2024. That is 85 fewer than the 229 girls named Miah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #585, reached in 2013. The most girls given the name in a single year was 499, in 2012. For comparison, it was #615 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Miah in 50 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1974 with 5 babies. In all, 9,593 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 4,284 babies named Miah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,756 US girls were named Miah; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 477. In 2025 that was about 1 in 11,162 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Miah ranked highest in Massachusetts in 2025, at #964 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Mia (310,610 babies since 1880), Mya (62,363 babies since 1880), Myah (10,255 babies since 1880) and Miya (8,071 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Miah in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 41 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 5 | #964 | #659 |
| Florida | 14 | #1,095 | #584 |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,125 | #834 |
| California | 23 | #1,138 | #403 |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,150 | #917 |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,352 | #650 |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,558 | #713 |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,607 | #957 |
| New York | 6 | #1,989 | #995 |
| Texas | 10 | #2,155 | #448 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 144 | #1,490 | — | — |
| 2024 | 229 | #1,084 | — | — |
| 2023 | 222 | #1,113 | — | — |
| 2022 | 231 | #1,085 | — | — |
| 2021 | 234 | #1,072 | — | — |
| 2020 | 235 | #1,058 | — | — |
| 2019 | 309 | #867 | — | — |
| 2018 | 331 | #820 | — | — |
| 2017 | 344 | #798 | — | — |
| 2016 | 477 | #628 | — | — |
| 2015 | 470 | #615 | — | — |
| 2014 | 463 | #621 | — | — |
| 2013 | 488 | #585 | — | — |
| 2012 | 499 | #585 | — | — |
| 2011 | 492 | #586 | — | — |
| 2010 | 411 | #697 | — | — |
| 2009 | 417 | #697 | — | — |
| 2008 | 376 | #781 | — | — |
| 2007 | 361 | #797 | — | — |
| 2006 | 359 | #767 | — | — |
| 2005 | 347 | #765 | — | — |
| 2004 | 255 | #946 | — | — |
| 2003 | 280 | #864 | 5 | #12,117 |
| 2002 | 280 | #834 | — | — |
| 2001 | 219 | #982 | — | — |
| 2000 | 182 | #1,126 | — | — |
| 1999 | 194 | #1,050 | 5 | #11,019 |
| 1998 | 157 | #1,187 | — | — |
| 1997 | 114 | #1,455 | — | — |
| 1996 | 91 | #1,681 | — | — |
| 1995 | 58 | #2,301 | — | — |
| 1994 | 43 | #2,832 | — | — |
| 1993 | 44 | #2,755 | — | — |
| 1992 | 37 | #3,122 | — | — |
| 1991 | 27 | #3,898 | — | — |
| 1990 | 27 | #3,871 | — | — |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,409 | — | — |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,535 | — | — |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,444 | — | — |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,224 | — | — |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,935 | — | — |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,531 | — | — |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,265 | — | — |
| 1981 | 15 | #4,872 | — | — |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,436 | — | — |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,232 | — | — |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,418 | — | — |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,875 | — | — |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,029 | — | — |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,684 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).