Miria
Miria was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 124 Americans have been recorded with it between 1967 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Miria by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Miria?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,908, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
11 babies in 1981, the peak
Miria peaked in 1981, when 11 girls were given it, #6,172 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #16,908 | 3.1 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,894 | 3.0 |
| 2019 | 9 | #11,089 | 5.4 |
| 2012 | 5 | #18,682 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,600 | 3.3 |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,967 | 3.6 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,827 | 4.5 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,860 | 5.6 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,966 | 2.8 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,612 | 2.7 |
Every recorded year (18)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 8 | #9,337 | 4.3 |
| 1988 | 11 | #6,959 | 6.2 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,925 | 3.6 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,372 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,172 | 6.6 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,672 | 3.3 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,900 | 3.9 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,856 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Miria a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Miria has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 18 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Miria: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Miria, and how old are they?
An estimated 121 Americans named Miria and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 19 and 43. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 649 people named Miria (647 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 112 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Miria rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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).
How common is the spelling Miria?
Miria is a less common spelling of Myriah: SSA has recorded 124 Miria and 1,980 Myriah since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 94,836 babies since 1880, Miria is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,719 babies recorded by SSA was a Miria (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Miria
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1960-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Sarabeth | 1,300 |
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 Miria and names like it
- Compare Miria and MyriahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sMiria peaked in 1981.
- The top names of 1981The year the most babies were named Miria.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Miria alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.