Miaya — girls' name
348 babies named Miaya in U.S. Social Security records since 1980, with the highest year being 1998. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
The verdict
348 girls have been named Miaya since 1980, peaking in the 1990s, last recorded in 2019.
- 348
- total births
- 1980–2019
- years on record
- 1990s
- peak decade
- 36%
- born in that decade
36% of everyone ever named Miaya was born in this single decade.
25 babies were named Miaya in 1998 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Miaya
The Social Security Administration has registered 348 babies named Miaya between 1980 and 2019, spanning 40 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Miaya currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 1998, when 25 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Miaya performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 127 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Miaya shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Georgia, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Miaya in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Miaya in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 348 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Miaya at a glance
Last recorded 2019Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Miaya popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2019–1980
- Peak year (1998)
- 25
- Annual births at peak — across 40 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2019.
348 total births across 40 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1998 with 25 births in a single year.
Miaya by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 127 births that decade — 36% of Miaya's all-time total
Miaya decade highlights
- Peak decade 127 births
- Runner-up 127 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Miaya's strongest decade
127 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 36% of all-time use.
Miaya by state
Where Miaya concentrates geographically — total births since 1980
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Georgia | | 5 | 1.4% |
5 of 348 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Georgia 1.4% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Georgia accounts for 1.4% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1980–2019 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.