Mia
Mia was given to 11,078 girls in 2025, #6 among girls’ names; 310,610 Americans have been recorded with it since 1933 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 307,000 Americans named Mia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Mia mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Mia is “a female given name from German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, or Danish.”
A German, Dutch and North Germanic diminutive of Maria.
/ˈmiːə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Mia?
#6 among girls’ names, 2025
Mia held from #6 in 2015 to #6 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 8.4 to 6.9 per 1,000.
14,960 babies in 2015, the peak
Mia peaked in 2015, when 14,960 babies were given it (14,943 girls, #6 among girls’ names). The 11,087 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 74% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11,078 | #6 | 6.9 |
| 2024 | 12,149 | #5 | 7.5 |
| 2023 | 11,404 | #6 | 7.1 |
| 2022 | 11,077 | #8 | 6.8 |
| 2021 | 11,177 | #8 | 6.8 |
| 2020 | 11,269 | #8 | 7.0 |
| 2019 | 12,508 | #8 | 7.5 |
| 2018 | 12,742 | #7 | 7.5 |
| 2017 | 13,521 | #6 | 7.8 |
| 2016 | 14,464 | #6 | 8.2 |
Every recorded year (86)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 14,943 | #6 | 8.4 |
| 2014 | 13,534 | #6 | 7.6 |
| 2013 | 13,166 | #6 | 7.5 |
| 2012 | 12,039 | #8 | 6.8 |
| 2011 | 11,543 | #9 | 6.6 |
| 2010 | 10,650 | #10 | 6.0 |
| 2009 | 11,438 | #10 | 6.2 |
| 2008 | 10,173 | #14 | 5.4 |
| 2007 | 10,922 | #15 | 5.7 |
| 2006 | 12,027 | #13 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 10,846 | #17 | 5.9 |
| 2004 | 7,399 | #30 | 4.0 |
| 2003 | 7,083 | #36 | 3.9 |
| 2002 | 6,259 | #43 | 3.5 |
| 2001 | 3,918 | #76 | 2.2 |
| 2000 | 3,451 | #93 | 1.9 |
| 1999 | 2,738 | #120 | 1.5 |
| 1998 | 2,567 | #130 | 1.5 |
| 1997 | 2,494 | #128 | 1.4 |
| 1996 | 1,690 | #180 | 1.0 |
| 1995 | 1,101 | #255 | 0.63 |
| 1994 | 861 | #316 | 0.48 |
| 1993 | 795 | #330 | 0.44 |
| 1992 | 822 | #328 | 0.45 |
| 1991 | 780 | #338 | 0.42 |
| 1990 | 782 | #341 | 0.41 |
| 1989 | 661 | #382 | 0.36 |
| 1988 | 620 | #387 | 0.35 |
| 1987 | 544 | #410 | 0.31 |
| 1986 | 491 | #438 | 0.29 |
| 1985 | 500 | #438 | 0.29 |
| 1984 | 452 | #463 | 0.27 |
| 1983 | 470 | #441 | 0.28 |
| 1982 | 547 | #415 | 0.32 |
| 1981 | 719 | #331 | 0.43 |
| 1980 | 683 | #347 | 0.41 |
| 1979 | 604 | #375 | 0.38 |
| 1978 | 523 | #395 | 0.34 |
| 1977 | 443 | #450 | 0.29 |
| 1976 | 354 | #504 | 0.24 |
| 1975 | 366 | #494 | 0.25 |
| 1974 | 388 | #464 | 0.26 |
| 1973 | 350 | #499 | 0.24 |
| 1972 | 414 | #451 | 0.27 |
| 1971 | 481 | #435 | 0.29 |
| 1970 | 488 | #450 | 0.28 |
| 1969 | 460 | #448 | 0.27 |
| 1968 | 681 | #335 | 0.42 |
| 1967 | 738 | #321 | 0.45 |
| 1966 | 721 | #328 | 0.43 |
| 1965 | 1,053 | #267 | 0.60 |
| 1964 | 297 | #572 | 0.16 |
| 1963 | 105 | #1,050 | 0.05 |
| 1962 | 85 | #1,197 | 0.04 |
| 1961 | 48 | #1,635 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 52 | #1,550 | 0.03 |
| 1959 | 51 | #1,530 | 0.03 |
| 1958 | 33 | #1,929 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 40 | #1,719 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 39 | #1,708 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 42 | #1,589 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 46 | #1,494 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 31 | #1,815 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 30 | #1,845 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 28 | #1,870 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 20 | #2,228 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 23 | #2,045 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 18 | #2,391 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 14 | #2,857 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,837 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,586 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,298 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,717 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 7 | #4,001 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,829 | under 0.01 |
| 1933 | 6 | #4,067 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mia has been given almost only to girls: 391 boys in 86 years of records.
Girls and boys named Mia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mia, and how old are they?
307,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 310,610 Americans ever recorded as Mia. The median Mia alive today is 13 years old; half are between 7 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 219,780 people named Mia (219,147 women and girls, 633 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 242,783 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 20 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 838 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 8,090 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 11,600 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 124,000 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 162,000 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Mia born?
The states with the most babies named Mia are California, Texas and Florida, with 38% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 1,788 | #2 | 1.4× |
| Texas | 1,483 | #4 | 1.3× |
| Florida | 993 | #2 | 1.2× |
| New York | 738 | #3 | 1.1× |
| New Jersey | 427 | #2 | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 412 | #5 | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 325 | #7 | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 319 | #7 | 0.9× |
| Arizona | 300 | #3 | 1.3× |
| Georgia | 296 | #9 | 0.7× |
Where Mia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Mia is most over-represented in California: since 1933 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Mia with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 413,659 babies since 1880, Mia is the most given (75% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11,087 of their 12,221 babies (91%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Mia
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Mia and names like it
- Compare Mia and MyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMia peaked in 2015.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mia since 1910.
- German namesWiktionary’s origin for Mia: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Mia.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Mia alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.