Meaning not yet researched.
Miya: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 123 in 2025. Its best rank was #877 in 2007.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #877 in 2007; #1,681 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Miya in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,681 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2007, at #877.
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Miya: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 123 girls in 2025. Peak: #877 in 2007 · most girls in one year: 319 (2007).
In 2025, 123 US girls were named Miya, making it the 1,681st most common girls’ name of the year, down 270 places from #1,411 in 2024. That is 36 fewer than the 159 girls named Miya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #877, reached in 2007. That year also had the most girls given the name: 319. For comparison, it was #971 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Miya in 60 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1965 with 6 babies. In all, 8,071 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,637 babies named Miya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,020 US girls were named Miya; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 285. In 2025 that was about 1 in 13,067 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Miya ranked highest in Hawaii in 2025, at #200 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Maya (123,750 babies since 1880), Amiya (8,672 babies since 1880), Mia (310,610 babies since 1880) and Mya (62,363 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Meiyi are summarised on this page.
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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Seediq. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Meiyi (6).
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 Miya 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 42 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 5 | #200 | #113 |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,167 | #803 |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,176 | #1,227 |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,199 | #1,036 |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,256 | #730 |
| New York | 9 | #1,482 | #955 |
| California | 15 | #1,551 | #1,101 |
| Florida | 8 | #1,646 | #824 |
| Texas | 8 | #2,563 | #1,257 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 123 | #1,681 | — | — |
| 2024 | 159 | #1,411 | — | — |
| 2023 | 173 | #1,314 | — | — |
| 2022 | 189 | #1,273 | — | — |
| 2021 | 200 | #1,205 | — | — |
| 2020 | 205 | #1,155 | — | — |
| 2019 | 207 | #1,160 | — | — |
| 2018 | 219 | #1,119 | — | — |
| 2017 | 260 | #998 | — | — |
| 2016 | 285 | #954 | — | — |
| 2015 | 279 | #971 | — | — |
| 2014 | 303 | #897 | — | — |
| 2013 | 294 | #879 | — | — |
| 2012 | 280 | #921 | — | — |
| 2011 | 273 | #947 | — | — |
| 2010 | 237 | #1,049 | — | — |
| 2009 | 275 | #968 | — | — |
| 2008 | 271 | #988 | — | — |
| 2007 | 319 | #877 | — | — |
| 2006 | 271 | #969 | — | — |
| 2005 | 281 | #896 | — | — |
| 2004 | 236 | #1,002 | — | — |
| 2003 | 238 | #974 | — | — |
| 2002 | 236 | #950 | — | — |
| 2001 | 215 | #998 | — | — |
| 2000 | 201 | #1,044 | — | — |
| 1999 | 239 | #894 | — | — |
| 1998 | 195 | #1,022 | — | — |
| 1997 | 139 | #1,270 | — | — |
| 1996 | 104 | #1,537 | — | — |
| 1995 | 88 | #1,680 | — | — |
| 1994 | 90 | #1,672 | — | — |
| 1993 | 101 | #1,550 | — | — |
| 1992 | 78 | #1,840 | — | — |
| 1991 | 70 | #1,988 | — | — |
| 1990 | 81 | #1,792 | — | — |
| 1989 | 48 | #2,436 | — | — |
| 1988 | 29 | #3,364 | — | — |
| 1987 | 35 | #2,825 | — | — |
| 1986 | 28 | #3,243 | — | — |
| 1985 | 40 | #2,468 | — | — |
| 1984 | 39 | #2,453 | — | — |
| 1983 | 44 | #2,227 | — | — |
| 1982 | 49 | #2,100 | — | — |
| 1981 | 51 | #2,047 | — | — |
| 1980 | 57 | #1,900 | — | — |
| 1979 | 43 | #2,262 | — | — |
| 1978 | 36 | #2,457 | — | — |
| 1977 | 37 | #2,411 | — | — |
| 1976 | 18 | #3,771 | — | — |
| 1975 | 20 | #3,477 | — | — |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,629 | — | — |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,458 | — | — |
| 1972 | 17 | #3,664 | — | — |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,380 | — | — |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,813 | — | — |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,254 | — | — |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,292 | — | — |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,751 | — | — |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,283 | — | — |
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).