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Miku

Girls' name

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Miku has been given to 136 babies in the U.S. since 1996. 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 2005, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Miku, 2024

1 in 371,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Miku: meaning, origin, and history

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Japanese

What Miku means

Miku is documented with more than one possible Japanese character combination. The Latin-letter spelling records a pronunciation; it does not specify one unique kanji spelling or one universal meaning.

Possible character meanings include beautiful, sky, long time.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Miku is used in Japanese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /mi.kɯᵝ/ for Miku.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 136 girls were recorded with the name Miku between 1996 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 13 in 2005; its best national rank was #8,682 in 2005.

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 Miku?

Miku 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 371,000
9 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 180,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
257,451 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Miku 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 257,451 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Miku. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mikus were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Miku was born before 2005 — so the typical Miku is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
56.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
86.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
136
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2000s — 56.6% of all recorded uses (77).

Is Miku 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2005 (13)
Years since peak
20
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,682
2005

Spellings of Miku

Miku is not the most common spelling — Mia is, with 61.6% against Miku's 0.03%.

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 Miku is used

Across 1910–2025, Miku was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,334,398 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. Miku has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Miku around the world

Where Miku 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
    2006–2006
    #5,061
    in 2006

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

Miku 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
#8,682
2005
Peak year
2005
13 that year
First recorded
1996
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
136
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Miku

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

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Sibling names for Miku

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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