Mya

Where Mya comes from

A modern phonetic spelling of Maia or Maya.
— Wiktionary's entry for Mya
  • Latin
  • Vowel-ended
Mya through the years
  1. 1954
    First appearance
    #5,753 among girls with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1996
    Mya Bollaers born
    Belgian actress
  3. 1998
    Around this time: Mýa
    Album, 1998 · Source
  4. 2001
    Mya Jones born
    Canadian soccer player
  5. 2009
    Peak, #97
    3,415 babies named Mya, the most in any year.
  6. 2018
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #194.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Latin.
Namesakes
  • Mya Bollaers · Belgian actress, born 1996
  • Mya Jones · Canadian soccer player, born 2001
  • Mya Baker · American film director
  • Mya Azzopardi · Maltese swimmer, born 2002
  • Mya de Freitas · vincentian swimmer, born 2005

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record. Events show what happened around then, not why parents chose the name.