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Miya

#1,681 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Mia

Miya has been given to 8,071 babies in the U.S. since 1965. In 2025 it ranked #1,681 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 319 recorded.

Babies named Miya, 2025

1 in 27,000

Miya over time, 1880–2025

Girls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Miya: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Mia

Japanese

What Miya means

Miya is a form of Mia.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Miya → Mia → Maria → Maria → מרים. The family’s proposed meaning is “to be bitter”, recorded in Hebrew with the source elements m-r-r.

Origin, language, and formation

Miya is used in English. Its origins include Japanese.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Mia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,071 girls were recorded with the name Miya between 1965 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 319 in 2007; its best national rank was #877 in 2007.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,155 in 2020 to #1,681 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #971 in 2015 to #1,681 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Miya?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 27,000
123 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 13,100
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,681
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
18,683 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Miya 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 18,683 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Miya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Miyas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Miya was born before 2008 — so the typical Miya is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
32.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
74.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
8,071
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 32.7% of all recorded uses (2,637).

Is Miya 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
−270
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−526
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−710
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.44×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
38.6%
Peak was 2007 (319)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
8.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#877
2007

Spellings of Miya

Miya is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 23.6% against Miya's 0.20%.

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 Miya is used

Across 2016–2025, Miya was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 1,111 girls, against 1 in 8,810 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in 33,333).

390 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 1,111
  2. 2Washington1 in 5,263
  3. 3Michigan1 in 5,556
  4. 4New York1 in 5,556
  5. 5California1 in 6,250
  6. 6Florida1 in 6,250
  7. 7Ohio1 in 6,667
  8. 8Missouri1 in 7,143

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.

Miya around the world

Where Miya 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
    1996–2025
    #1,079
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2003–2025
    #632
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2004–2022
    #418
    in 2022
  • Ireland
    2004–2025
    #483
    in 2025
  • France
    1992–2025
    #452
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1995–2024
    #1,050
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1984–2013
    #536
    in 2013

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

Notable people named Miya

People whose public names include Miya, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Miya in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Miya. Linked forms have their own page here.

MayaAmiya

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Miya by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,681
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 526
Best rank ever
#877
2007
Peak year
2007
319 that year
First recorded
1965
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
8,071
Count in 2025
123

Names similar to Miya

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

RiyaMiyahDiyaNiyaKiyaKaiyaAmiyaAriyaSiyaPriyaAliyaLiyaJiyaMaiyaZiyaAniyaSaniyaJaniyaAsiyaTaniyaSamiyaMiyuZaniyaNaiya

Names with a curve like Miya

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Miya, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

NathalyAkiraAnneliseSarahiAnsleyKarisNatalyaPalomaYaritzaKylahJayleneCarleigh

Sibling names for Miya

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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