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Miia

#11,587 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly to be bitter, through Mia

Miia has been given to 238 babies in the U.S. since 2005. In 2025 it ranked #11,587 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Miia, 2025

1 in 414,000

Miia over time, 1880–2025

Girls
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Miia: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly to be bitter, through Mia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Miia means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Miia is used in Estonian and Finnish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Mia, Mirjam, Maria and מרים.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Miia is pronounced /ˈmiː.ɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 238 girls were recorded with the name Miia between 2005 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 18 in 2010; its best national rank was #7,124 in 2010.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,828 in 2020 to #11,587 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,493 in 2015 to #11,587 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.

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How common is Miia?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 201,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#11,587
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Miia 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Miia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Miias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Miia was born before 2015 — so the typical Miia is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
52.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
238
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 52.9% of all recorded uses (126).

Is Miia 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
−773
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,759
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,094
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.50×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
44.4%
Peak was 2010 (18)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,124
2010

Spellings of Miia

Miia is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 20.4% against Miia's <0.01%.

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 Miia is used

Across 1910–2025, Miia was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,131,748 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 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. Miia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Miia around the world

Where Miia 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
    2004–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • France
    2011–2025
    #3,277
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2010–2021
    #3,354
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    2002–2006
    #782
    in 2006

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

Miia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#11,587
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,759
Best rank ever
#7,124
2010
Peak year
2010
18 that year
First recorded
2005
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
238
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Miia

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

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Sibling names for Miia

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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