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Miu

Girls' name

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Miu has been given to 92 babies in the U.S. since 2001. 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 9 recorded.

Babies named Miu, 2023

1 in 552,000

Miu over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Miu: meaning, origin, and history

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Japanese

What Miu means

Miu 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, feather.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Miu is used in Japanese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /mi.ɯᵝ/ for Miu.

Origin, language, and formation

Miu is used in English and French. Its origins include Japanese.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Miu is pronounced /mi.u/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 92 girls were recorded with the name Miu between 2001 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2003; its best national rank was #11,019 in 2003.

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 Miu?

Miu had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 552,000
6 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 267,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
382,940 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Miu 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 2023 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 382,940 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Miu. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mius were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Miu was born before 2009 — so the typical Miu is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
51.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
92
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Choose a decade

2000s — 51.1% of all recorded uses (47).

Is Miu 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 2003 (9)
Years since peak
22
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#11,019
2003

Where Miu is used

Across 1910–2025, Miu 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. Miu has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Miu around the world

Where Miu 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
    2009–2009
    #5,556
    in 2009

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

Miu 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
#11,019
2003
Peak year
2003
9 that year
First recorded
2001
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
92
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Miu

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

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Sibling names for Miu

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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