Miya
#1,673 for girls in 2025, 123 births
- Peak · girls
- 2007 · 319 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 8,071since 1965
Miya over time
Rank among girls' names. Miya has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,673 | 123 |
| 2024 | #1,406 | 159 |
| 2023 | #1,310 | 173 |
| 2022 | #1,269 | 189 |
| 2021 | #1,204 | 200 |
| 2020 | #1,152 | 205 |
| 2019 | #1,158 | 207 |
| 2018 | #1,116 | 219 |
| 2017 | #996 | 260 |
| 2016 | #953 | 285 |
| 2015 | #970 | 279 |
| 2014 | #896 | 303 |
| 2013 | #877 | 294 |
| 2012 | #920 | 280 |
| 2011 | #945 | 273 |
| 2010 | #1,046 | 237 |
| 2009 | #967 | 275 |
| 2008 | #983 | 271 |
| 2007 | #875 | 319 |
| 2006 | #967 | 271 |
| 2005 | #894 | 281 |
| 2004 | #997 | 236 |
| 2003 | #974 | 238 |
| 2002 | #946 | 236 |
| 2001 | #997 | 215 |
| 2000 | #1,042 | 201 |
| 1999 | #894 | 239 |
| 1998 | #1,018 | 195 |
| 1997 | #1,269 | 139 |
| 1996 | #1,532 | 104 |
| 1995 | #1,669 | 88 |
| 1994 | #1,663 | 90 |
| 1993 | #1,538 | 101 |
| 1992 | #1,830 | 78 |
| 1991 | #1,979 | 70 |
| 1990 | #1,781 | 81 |
| 1989 | #2,408 | 48 |
| 1988 | #3,306 | 29 |
| 1987 | #2,780 | 35 |
| 1986 | #3,203 | 28 |
| 1985 | #2,440 | 40 |
| 1984 | #2,421 | 39 |
| 1983 | #2,198 | 44 |
| 1982 | #2,082 | 49 |
| 1981 | #2,028 | 51 |
| 1980 | #1,886 | 57 |
| 1979 | #2,248 | 43 |
| 1978 | #2,431 | 36 |
| 1977 | #2,381 | 37 |
| 1976 | #3,678 | 18 |
| 1975 | #3,404 | 20 |
| 1974 | #4,459 | 13 |
| 1973 | #6,080 | 8 |
| 1972 | #3,543 | 17 |
| 1971 | #5,136 | 10 |
| 1970 | #6,362 | 7 |
| 1969 | #7,471 | 5 |
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| 1967 | #4,982 | 8 |
| 1966 | #4,493 | 9 |
| 1965 | #5,817 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Miya! It came in at #5,817, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1968–1969, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Miya is popular in 2016
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Hawaii#186 · 1 in 520
- Arkansas#553 · 1 in 2,257
- Oregon#572 · 1 in 2,534
- Washington#597 · 1 in 2,922
- Minnesota#632 · 1 in 3,068
Best ever in a state: #102 in Hawaii, 2014.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | #186 | 6 | 1 in 520 |
| Arkansas | #553 | 5 | 1 in 2,257 |
| Oregon | #572 | 6 | 1 in 2,534 |
| Washington | #597 | 11 | 1 in 2,922 |
| Minnesota | #632 | 8 | 1 in 3,068 |
| Kentucky | #642 | 6 | 1 in 3,043 |
| Pennsylvania | #658 | 15 | 1 in 3,457 |
| South Carolina | #733 | 5 | 1 in 3,572 |
| Missouri | #735 | 7 | 1 in 3,875 |
| Tennessee | #759 | 8 | 1 in 3,880 |
| California | #789 | 44 | 1 in 4,630 |
| Michigan | #827 | 9 | 1 in 4,674 |
| New York | #836 | 19 | 1 in 4,728 |
| Arizona | #859 | 7 | 1 in 4,420 |
| North Carolina | #913 | 9 | 1 in 5,034 |
| Illinois | #990 | 10 | 1 in 5,763 |
| Georgia | #995 | 9 | 1 in 5,339 |
| Virginia | #1,036 | 6 | 1 in 6,190 |
| Ohio | #1,049 | 8 | 1 in 6,508 |
| Florida | #1,056 | 13 | 1 in 6,670 |
| Indiana | #1,058 | 5 | 1 in 6,059 |
| Texas | #1,354 | 18 | 1 in 9,294 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Miya
- 267 spots since 2024 (#1,406 → #1,673)
- 521 spots since 2020 (#1,152 → #1,673)
- 703 spots since 2015 (#970 → #1,673)
- Biggest jump: 124 spots in 1999 (#1,018 → #894)
- Biggest drop: 148 spots in 2000 (#894 → #1,042)
- Debuted 1965
- Peaked 2007 at #875 (319 births)
- Births halved by 2024, 17 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 17 yrs · run 2001–2009
- Highest: 1 in 5,896 girls born in 2014 were named Miya (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 13,067 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #875 in 2007, was only 1 in 6,027 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 32.7% of all girls named Miya (2,637) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 28 | #4,493 (1966) | #5,691 |
| 1970s | 209 | #2,248 (1979) | #3,972 |
| 1980s | 420 | #1,886 (1980) | #2,475 |
| 1990s | 1,185 | #894 (1999) | #1,517 |
| 2000s | 2,543 | #875 (2007) | #964 |
| 2010s | 2,637 | #877 (2013) | #988 |
| 2020s | 1,049 | #1,152 (2020) | #1,336 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Miya in 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
More about 2016
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1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 6,218 of them was named Miya, which outranked 95.0% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).