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Mi

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Chinese origin

Mi has been given to 721 babies in the U.S. since 1954. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1981, with 28 recorded.

Babies named Mi, 2024

1 in 557,000

Mi over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mi: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Chinese origin

Chinese

What Mi means

Mi is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Mi is used in Vietnamese. Its origins include Chinese.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Vietnamese, Mi is pronounced [mi˧˧].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 721 girls were recorded with the name Mi between 1954 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 28 in 1981; its best national rank was #3,116 in 1981.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Mi?

Mi had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 270,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,177 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mi sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mi was born before 1989 — so the typical Mi is around 36 today.

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
27.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
23.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
721
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 27.9% of all recorded uses (201).

Is Mi rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1981 (28)
Years since peak
44
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
53.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,116
1981

Where Mi is used

Across 1910–2025, Mi was most concentrated in Kansas — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 189,871 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Kansas1 in 20,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Mi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Mi around the world

Where Mi ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2016–2016
    #5,785
    in 2016
  • France
    1985–1985
    #2,817
    in 1985
  • South Australia
    1989–2007
    #803
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Mi by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,116
1981
Peak year
1981
28 that year
First recorded
1954
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
721
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Mi

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Mi

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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