Meaning not yet researched.
Myah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 116 in 2025. Its best rank was #578 in 2011.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #578 in 2011; #1,752 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Myah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,752 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2011, at #578.
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Myah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 116 girls in 2025. Peak: #578 in 2011 · most girls in one year: 510 (2009).
In 2025, 116 US girls were named Myah, making it the 1,752nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 273 places from #1,479 in 2024. That is 32 fewer than the 148 girls named Myah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #578, reached in 2011. The most girls given the name in a single year was 510, in 2009. For comparison, it was #687 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Myah in 50 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1975 with 7 babies. In all, 10,255 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 4,144 babies named Myah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,510 US girls were named Myah; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 445. In 2025 that was about 1 in 13,856 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Myah ranked highest in Michigan in 2025, at #933 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), Miah (9,593 babies since 1880) and Miya (8,071 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Meeah, Meeyah and Meiyah are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Meeah (79), Meeyah (73), Meiyah (29), Megh (22), Miayah (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 Myah 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 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 8 | #933 | #437 |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,155 | #467 |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,356 | #842 |
| Florida | 9 | #1,512 | #792 |
| Texas | 15 | #1,598 | #918 |
| California | 11 | #1,910 | #865 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 116 | #1,752 | — | — |
| 2024 | 148 | #1,479 | — | — |
| 2023 | 157 | #1,426 | — | — |
| 2022 | 188 | #1,276 | — | — |
| 2021 | 225 | #1,102 | — | — |
| 2020 | 222 | #1,102 | — | — |
| 2019 | 288 | #921 | — | — |
| 2018 | 351 | #779 | — | — |
| 2017 | 370 | #754 | — | — |
| 2016 | 445 | #657 | — | — |
| 2015 | 417 | #687 | — | — |
| 2014 | 390 | #719 | — | — |
| 2013 | 441 | #639 | — | — |
| 2012 | 474 | #605 | — | — |
| 2011 | 505 | #578 | — | — |
| 2010 | 463 | #636 | — | — |
| 2009 | 510 | #591 | — | — |
| 2008 | 508 | #604 | — | — |
| 2007 | 489 | #615 | — | — |
| 2006 | 447 | #648 | — | — |
| 2005 | 370 | #732 | — | — |
| 2004 | 326 | #787 | 6 | #10,902 |
| 2003 | 361 | #716 | — | — |
| 2002 | 342 | #720 | — | — |
| 2001 | 296 | #798 | — | — |
| 2000 | 269 | #833 | — | — |
| 1999 | 276 | #793 | — | — |
| 1998 | 273 | #787 | — | — |
| 1997 | 129 | #1,339 | — | — |
| 1996 | 68 | #2,052 | — | — |
| 1995 | 62 | #2,177 | — | — |
| 1994 | 58 | #2,285 | — | — |
| 1993 | 34 | #3,330 | — | — |
| 1992 | 25 | #4,181 | — | — |
| 1991 | 29 | #3,692 | — | — |
| 1990 | 28 | #3,783 | — | — |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,469 | — | — |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,993 | — | — |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,831 | — | — |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,230 | — | — |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,956 | — | — |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,895 | — | — |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,796 | — | — |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,960 | — | — |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,151 | — | — |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,252 | — | — |
| 1979 | 19 | #3,995 | — | — |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,408 | — | — |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,686 | — | — |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,694 | — | — |
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).