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Midas

#4,643 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning uncertain in the cited reference

Midas has been given to 291 babies in the U.S. since 2011. In 2025 it ranked #4,643 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 45 recorded.

Babies named Midas, 2025

1 in 151,000

Midas over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Midas: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning uncertain in the cited reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Midas means

Midas is a given name.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 291 boys were recorded with the name Midas between 2011 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 45 in 2023; its best national rank was #2,832 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,881 in 2020 to #4,643 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,900 in 2015 to #4,643 in 2025.

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.

How common is Midas?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 151,000
22 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 77,600
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,643
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
104,451 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Midas sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 104,451 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Midas. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Midass were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Midas was born before 2021 — so the typical Midas is around 4 today.

Median birth year
2021
About 4 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
64.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
291
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 64.9% of all recorded uses (189).

Is Midas 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
−693
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−762
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,257
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.47×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
48.9%
Peak was 2023 (45)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,832
2023

Spellings of Midas

Midas is not the most common spelling — Miles is, with 25.5% against Midas's 0.06%.

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 Midas is used

Across 1910–2025, Midas was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 978,730 across all states with data. It was least common in Florida (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Midas has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Midas around the world

Where Midas 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
    2015–2015
    #4,747
    in 2015
  • Canada
    2024–2024
    #2,550
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Midas by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,643
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 762
Best rank ever
#2,832
2023
Peak year
2023
45 that year
First recorded
2011
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
291
Count in 2025
22

Names similar to Midas

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

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Sibling names for Midas

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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