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Mija

Girls' name

Short form of Marija

Mija has been given to 175 babies in the U.S. since 1970. 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 2003, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Mija, 2019

1 in 496,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mija: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Marija

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mija means

Mija is a short form of Marija.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Mija is used in Slovene.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Marija.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Slovene, Mija is pronounced /mìːja/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 175 girls were recorded with the name Mija between 1970 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 13 in 2003; its best national rank was #7,661 in 1970.

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 Mija?

Mija had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019
1 in 496,000
7 of 3,472,229 births
Among girls only
1 in 240,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2019
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
343,825 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mija 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 2019 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 343,825 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mija. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mijas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mija was born before 2002 — so the typical Mija is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
45.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
74.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
175
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2000s — 45.7% of all recorded uses (80).

Is Mija 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2003 (13)
Years since peak
22
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,661
1970

Spellings of Mija

Mija is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 26.3% against Mija'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 Mija is used

Across 1910–2025, Mija was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Mija has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Mija around the world

Where Mija 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
    2005–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    2006–2014
    #752
    in 2014
  • France
    2020–2020
    #5,864
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    2000–2003
    #739
    in 2003

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

Mija 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
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Best rank ever
#7,661
1970
Peak year
2003
13 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
175
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Mija

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

SrijaNaijaTijaHadijaAijaMijahAdrijaSofijaLamijaKaijaAnijaDwijaMaijaKadijaEmilijaNijaLucijaAnaijaDeijaKijaAlaijaMijoyRijaKanija

Sibling names for Mija

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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