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Miyo

Girls' name

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Miyo has been given to 62 babies in the U.S. since 1915. 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 1924, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Miyo, 2008

1 in 562,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Miyo: meaning, origin, and history

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Japanese

What Miyo means

Miyo 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, generation.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Miyo is used in Japanese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /mi.jo̞/ for Miyo.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 62 girls were recorded with the name Miyo between 1915 and 2008. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1924; its best national rank was #2,921 in 1924.

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 Miyo?

Miyo had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2008, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2008
1 in 562,000
7 of 3,930,727 births
Among girls only
1 in 270,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2008
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
389,226 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Miyo 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 2008 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 389,226 children born in 2008 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Miyo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Miyos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Miyo was born before 1924 — so the typical Miyo is around 101 today.

Median birth year
1924
About 101 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
59.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
11.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
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1920s — 59.7% of all recorded uses (37).

Is Miyo 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 1924 (12)
Years since peak
101
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,921
1924

Spellings of Miyo

Miyo is not the most common spelling — Mia is, with 40.4% against Miyo'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 Miyo is used

Across 1910–2025, Miyo was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,231,752 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. Miyo has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Miyo around the world

Where Miyo 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.

  • France
    2023–2025
    #6,956
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1997–1997
    #681
    in 1997

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Miyo 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
#2,921
1924
Peak year
1924
12 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2008
All-time count
62
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Miyo

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

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Sibling names for Miyo

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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