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Myia

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Myia has been given to 2,267 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 1998, with 123 recorded.

Babies named Myia, 2024

1 in 334,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Myia: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Myia means

Myia is a given name.

The naming story behind Myia

Wikidata records Myia as a given name. The entity identifier is Q119710656, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,267 girls were recorded with the name Myia between 1970 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 123 in 1998; its best national rank was #1,400 in 1998.

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 Myia?

Myia 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 334,000
10 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 162,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
231,706 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Myia 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 231,706 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Myia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Myias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Myia was born before 2000 — so the typical Myia is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
34.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
52.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,267
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 34.3% of all recorded uses (778).

Is Myia 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
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1998 (123)
Years since peak
27
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,400
1998

Spellings of Myia

Myia is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 22.8% against Myia's 0.09%.

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 Myia is used

Across 1910–2025, Myia was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 214,873 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 100,000
  2. 2Georgia1 in 100,000
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 100,000
  4. 4Michigan1 in 100,000
  5. 5Mississippi1 in 100,000
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 100,000
  7. 7Ohio1 in 100,000
  8. 8South Carolina1 in 100,000

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

Myia around the world

Where Myia 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
    1999–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2005–2017
    #432
    in 2017
  • Ireland
    2008–2017
    #873
    in 2017
  • France
    2011–2024
    #5,028
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1996–2019
    #3,370
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    2004–2005
    #775
    in 2005

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, 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, 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.

Myia 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
#1,400
1998
Peak year
1998
123 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
2,267
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Myia

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

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Names with a curve like Myia

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

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Sibling names for Myia

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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