Miya — #1401 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Miya

The Social Security Administration has registered 7,947 babies named Miya between 1965 and 2024, spanning 60 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Miya currently holds the #1401 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2007, when 319 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Miya performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 2,636 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Miya shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 1,024 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Miya in 40 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Miya 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 7,947 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.