Miah
Miah was given to 144 girls in 2025, #1,490 among girls’ names; 9,593 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,510 Americans named Miah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 10 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Miah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Miah mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Miah is “a female given name.”
Modern usage, probably a variant of Mia.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Miah?
#1,490 among girls’ names, 2025
Miah fell from #615 in 2015 to #1,490 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.26 to 0.09 per 1,000.
499 babies in 2012, the peak
Miah peaked in 2012, when 499 girls were given it, #585 among girls’ names. The 144 births of 2025 are 29% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 144 | #1,490 | 0.09 |
| 2024 | 229 | #1,084 | 0.14 |
| 2023 | 222 | #1,113 | 0.14 |
| 2022 | 231 | #1,085 | 0.14 |
| 2021 | 234 | #1,072 | 0.14 |
| 2020 | 235 | #1,058 | 0.15 |
| 2019 | 309 | #867 | 0.18 |
| 2018 | 331 | #820 | 0.19 |
| 2017 | 344 | #798 | 0.20 |
| 2016 | 477 | #628 | 0.27 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 470 | #615 | 0.26 |
| 2014 | 463 | #621 | 0.26 |
| 2013 | 488 | #585 | 0.28 |
| 2012 | 499 | #585 | 0.28 |
| 2011 | 492 | #586 | 0.28 |
| 2010 | 411 | #697 | 0.23 |
| 2009 | 417 | #697 | 0.23 |
| 2008 | 376 | #781 | 0.20 |
| 2007 | 361 | #797 | 0.19 |
| 2006 | 359 | #767 | 0.19 |
| 2005 | 347 | #765 | 0.19 |
| 2004 | 255 | #946 | 0.14 |
| 2003 | 280 | #864 | 0.15 |
| 2002 | 280 | #834 | 0.16 |
| 2001 | 219 | #981 | 0.12 |
| 2000 | 182 | #1,124 | 0.10 |
| 1999 | 194 | #1,048 | 0.11 |
| 1998 | 157 | #1,185 | 0.09 |
| 1997 | 114 | #1,453 | 0.07 |
| 1996 | 91 | #1,679 | 0.05 |
| 1995 | 58 | #2,296 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 43 | #2,827 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 44 | #2,750 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 37 | #3,117 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 27 | #3,892 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 27 | #3,866 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,403 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,530 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,439 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,220 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,932 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,529 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,263 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 15 | #4,871 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,435 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,231 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,417 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,873 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,027 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,682 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Miah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Miah has been given almost only to girls: 10 boys in 50 years of records.
Girls and boys named Miah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Miah, and how old are they?
9,510 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 9,593 Americans ever recorded as Miah. The median Miah alive today is 15 years old; half are between 10 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 7,153 people named Miah (6,950 women and girls, 203 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,291 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 52 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 399 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,900 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,150 |
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 Miah born?
The states with the most babies named Miah are California, Florida and Texas, with 56% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 23 | #1,138 | 1.2× |
| Florida | 14 | #1,095 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 10 | #2,155 | 1.2× |
| New York | 6 | #1,989 | 0.8× |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,125 | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,558 | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,352 | 0.9× |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,150 | 1.0× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,607 | 0.5× |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #964 | 0.5× |
Where Miah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Miah is most over-represented in Arizona: since 1974 it was given 1.3 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 Miah 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, Miah is the fourth most given (2.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 144 of their 12,221 babies (1.2%), the third most given that year.
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 Miah
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 Miah and names like it
- Compare Miah and MiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMiah peaked in 2012.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Miah since 1910.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Miah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Miah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.