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Miah

#1,490 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly to be bitter, through Mia

Miah has been given to 9,593 babies in the U.S. since 1974. In 2025 it ranked #1,490 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 499 recorded.

Babies named Miah, 2025

1 in 23,000

Miah over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Miah: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly to be bitter, through Mia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Miah means

Miah belongs to the name family reached through Miah → Mia → Maria → Maria → מרים. Its meaning is “to be bitter”.

Origin, language, and formation

Miah is used in English.

Miah is a modern formation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Mia, Maria and מרים.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 9,583 girls were recorded with the name Miah between 1974 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 499 in 2012; its best national rank was #585 in 2012.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,058 in 2020 to #1,490 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #615 in 2015 to #1,490 in 2025.

In the United States, 10 boys were recorded with the name Miah between 1999 and 2003. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1999; its best national rank was #11,012 in 1999.

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 Miah?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 23,000
144 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 11,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,490
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
15,959 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Miah 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 2025 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 15,959 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Miah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Miahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Miah was born before 2011 — so the typical Miah is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
44.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
88.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
9,583
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Choose a decade

2010s — 44.7% of all recorded uses (4,284).

Is Miah 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
−406
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−432
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−875
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.31×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
28.9%
Peak was 2012 (499)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
8.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#585
2012

Spellings of Miah

Miah is not the most common spelling — Mia is, with 20.1% against Miah's 0.62%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Miah is used

Across 2016–2025, Miah was most concentrated in New Mexico — about 1 in 1,754 girls, against 1 in 5,702 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in 33,333).

357 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Mexico1 in 1,754
  2. 2Arizona1 in 3,571
  3. 3Florida1 in 3,571
  4. 4California1 in 3,704
  5. 5Massachusetts1 in 4,167
  6. 6Texas1 in 4,348
  7. 7Indiana1 in 5,263
  8. 8Rhode Island1 in 5,263

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.

Geographically, Miah is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 76% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Miah around the world

Where Miah 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
    1996–2025
    #1,271
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2002–2024
    #384
    in 2024
  • Northern Ireland
    2007–2023
    #328
    in 2023
  • Ireland
    2004–2025
    #544
    in 2025
  • France
    2013–2025
    #5,585
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1996–2024
    #2,256
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1992–2013
    #233
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Miah

People whose public names include Miah, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Miah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,490
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 432
Best rank ever
#585
2012
Peak year
2012
499 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
9,583
Count in 2025
144

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#11,012
1999
Peak year
1999
5 that year
First recorded
1999
Last recorded
2003
All-time count
10
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Miah

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

AriahKiahAliahLiahAmiahSariahNiahAniahMoriahZariahMaliahMianaKeziahJaniahZiahAsiahNeriahNariahAzariahTaliahAnaiahLeiahMiamorRiah

Names with a curve like Miah

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Miah, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

MaleahMadalynnSariahJayceeJayleneJaelynnJayleeAmiyaJazlynnKyndallAiyanaNathaly

Sibling names for Miah

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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