Miia
Miia was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,587 among girls’ names; 238 Americans have been recorded with it since 2005 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Miia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Miia mean?
Wiktionary, Finnish section
Miia is “a female given name, equivalent to English Mia”
A vernacular form of Mirjam (later also of Maria), probably from Swedish Mia.
/ˈmiː.ɑ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Finnish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Miia?
#11,587 among girls’ names, 2025
Miia fell from #7,493 in 2015 to #11,587 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 9.0 to 5.0 per million.
18 babies in 2010, the peak
Miia peaked in 2010, when 18 girls were given it, #7,124 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 44% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,587 | 5.0 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,814 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 10 | #10,094 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,186 | 9.8 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,815 | 7.3 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,828 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,454 | 7.7 |
| 2018 | 9 | #11,156 | 5.3 |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,162 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,266 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (21)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 16 | #7,493 | 9.0 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,355 | 6.7 |
| 2013 | 11 | #10,021 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,920 | 5.1 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,540 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 18 | #7,124 | 10.1 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,800 | 6.5 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,561 | 5.8 |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,949 | 3.6 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,474 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,995 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Miia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Miia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 21 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Miia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Miia, and how old are they?
An estimated 236 Americans named Miia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 6 and 16. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
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.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 403,642 babies since 1880, Miia is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 12,113 babies (<1%), the seventh 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 Miia
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 Miia and names like it
- Compare Miia and MiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMiia peaked in 2010.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Miia since 1910.
- Finnish namesWiktionary’s origin for Miia: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Miia.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Miia alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.