Meaning not yet researched.
Mya: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 697 in 2025. Its best rank was #97 in 2009.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #97 in 2009; #444 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Mya in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#444 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2009, at #97.
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Mya: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 697 girls in 2025. Peak: #97 in 2009 · most girls in one year: 3,415 (2009).
In 2025, 697 US girls were named Mya, making it the 444th most common girls’ name of the year, down 78 places from #366 in 2024. That is 158 fewer than the 855 girls named Mya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #97, reached in 2009. That year also had the most girls given the name: 3,415. For comparison, it was #146 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mya in 66 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1954 with 5 babies. In all, 62,363 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 28,840 babies named Mya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 12,568 US girls were named Mya; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 1,920. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,306 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Mya ranked highest in North Dakota in 2025, at #184 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), Maya (123,750 babies since 1880), Myah (10,255 babies since 1880) and Miah (9,593 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Meyah, Meeya and Myyah 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Meyah (523), Meeya (168), Myyah (5).
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 Mya 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 14 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Dakota | 6 | #184 | #177 |
| Iowa | 16 | #218 | #84 |
| Minnesota | 24 | #240 | #147 |
| Maine | 5 | #248 | #63 |
| Wisconsin | 21 | #264 | #96 |
| South Dakota | 5 | #267 | #92 |
| New Mexico | 6 | #285 | #66 |
| Ohio | 37 | #305 | #107 |
| Florida | 59 | #317 | #140 |
| Pennsylvania | 34 | #324 | #109 |
| Missouri | 19 | #324 | #114 |
| Nevada | 8 | #364 | #186 |
| Connecticut | 8 | #377 | #128 |
| Michigan | 23 | #387 | #107 |
| Georgia | 29 | #398 | #183 |
| Kentucky | 10 | #437 | #149 |
| Massachusetts | 13 | #438 | #134 |
| Illinois | 24 | #453 | #163 |
| California | 74 | #455 | #190 |
| Virginia | 18 | #456 | #189 |
| Indiana | 15 | #469 | #127 |
| Tennessee | 17 | #472 | #280 |
| Arkansas | 7 | #477 | #118 |
| New York | 33 | #514 | #138 |
| Texas | 61 | #527 | #168 |
| North Carolina | 21 | #530 | #225 |
| Arizona | 13 | #539 | #111 |
| Kansas | 6 | #556 | #106 |
| Oklahoma | 7 | #604 | #201 |
| Louisiana | 6 | #749 | #126 |
| Colorado | 7 | #766 | #218 |
| Alabama | 6 | #795 | #264 |
| Utah | 5 | #800 | #160 |
| Maryland | 6 | #810 | #156 |
| New Jersey | 9 | #823 | #125 |
| South Carolina | 5 | #879 | #187 |
| Washington | 6 | #1,011 | #169 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 697 | #444 | — | — |
| 2024 | 855 | #366 | — | — |
| 2023 | 916 | #341 | — | — |
| 2022 | 1,061 | #302 | — | — |
| 2021 | 1,159 | #271 | — | — |
| 2020 | 1,241 | #243 | — | — |
| 2019 | 1,402 | #220 | — | — |
| 2018 | 1,564 | #194 | — | — |
| 2017 | 1,753 | #172 | — | — |
| 2016 | 1,920 | #167 | — | — |
| 2015 | 2,209 | #146 | — | — |
| 2014 | 2,409 | #138 | — | — |
| 2013 | 2,705 | #116 | 6 | #11,720 |
| 2012 | 2,552 | #124 | — | — |
| 2011 | 2,864 | #105 | 6 | #11,821 |
| 2010 | 2,999 | #101 | 6 | #11,741 |
| 2009 | 3,415 | #97 | — | — |
| 2008 | 3,339 | #103 | — | — |
| 2007 | 3,325 | #102 | 7 | #10,533 |
| 2006 | 3,356 | #102 | 5 | #13,397 |
| 2005 | 3,208 | #98 | — | — |
| 2004 | 2,896 | #116 | 12 | #6,395 |
| 2003 | 2,952 | #116 | 5 | #12,151 |
| 2002 | 2,281 | #145 | 6 | #10,252 |
| 2001 | 2,189 | #149 | — | — |
| 2000 | 1,839 | #175 | 5 | #11,605 |
| 1999 | 1,885 | #166 | — | — |
| 1998 | 1,284 | #238 | — | — |
| 1997 | 196 | #995 | — | — |
| 1996 | 152 | #1,192 | — | — |
| 1995 | 133 | #1,271 | — | — |
| 1994 | 103 | #1,520 | — | — |
| 1993 | 134 | #1,278 | — | — |
| 1992 | 92 | #1,656 | — | — |
| 1991 | 97 | #1,581 | — | — |
| 1990 | 90 | #1,654 | — | — |
| 1989 | 54 | #2,238 | — | — |
| 1988 | 57 | #2,067 | — | — |
| 1987 | 49 | #2,220 | — | — |
| 1986 | 46 | #2,254 | — | — |
| 1985 | 48 | #2,198 | — | — |
| 1984 | 43 | #2,283 | — | — |
| 1983 | 57 | #1,849 | — | — |
| 1982 | 50 | #2,070 | — | — |
| 1981 | 58 | #1,878 | — | — |
| 1980 | 84 | #1,453 | — | — |
| 1979 | 65 | #1,702 | — | — |
| 1978 | 84 | #1,392 | — | — |
| 1977 | 52 | #1,916 | — | — |
| 1976 | 26 | #2,912 | — | — |
| 1975 | 34 | #2,391 | — | — |
| 1974 | 26 | #2,811 | — | — |
| 1973 | 21 | #3,198 | — | — |
| 1972 | 21 | #3,137 | — | — |
| 1971 | 23 | #3,034 | — | — |
| 1970 | 25 | #2,834 | — | — |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,939 | — | — |
| 1968 | 17 | #3,266 | — | — |
| 1967 | 20 | #2,838 | — | — |
| 1966 | 18 | #3,008 | — | — |
| 1965 | 13 | #3,676 | — | — |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,836 | — | — |
| 1962 | 8 | #5,158 | — | — |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,536 | — | — |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,728 | — | — |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,356 | — | — |
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).