Miyah
Miyah was given to 40 girls in 2025, #3,750 among girls’ names; 3,550 Americans have been recorded with it since 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,520 Americans named Miyah 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 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Miyah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Miyah?
#3,750 among girls’ names, 2025
Miyah fell from #1,257 in 2015 to #3,750 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.11 to 0.02 per 1,000.
208 babies in 2012, the peak
Miyah peaked in 2012, when 208 girls were given it, #1,184 among girls’ names. The 40 births of 2025 are 19% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 40 | #3,750 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 57 | #2,914 | 0.04 |
| 2023 | 63 | #2,750 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 80 | #2,336 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 106 | #1,883 | 0.06 |
| 2020 | 99 | #1,943 | 0.06 |
| 2019 | 129 | #1,645 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 135 | #1,593 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 139 | #1,579 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 170 | #1,381 | 0.10 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 195 | #1,257 | 0.11 |
| 2014 | 180 | #1,318 | 0.10 |
| 2013 | 167 | #1,390 | 0.10 |
| 2012 | 208 | #1,184 | 0.12 |
| 2011 | 186 | #1,279 | 0.11 |
| 2010 | 167 | #1,386 | 0.09 |
| 2009 | 154 | #1,491 | 0.08 |
| 2008 | 129 | #1,729 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 165 | #1,437 | 0.09 |
| 2006 | 121 | #1,731 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 102 | #1,902 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 98 | #1,919 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 93 | #1,963 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 74 | #2,240 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 68 | #2,345 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 65 | #2,390 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 84 | #1,885 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 73 | #2,039 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 58 | #2,319 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 30 | #3,692 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 26 | #4,061 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 27 | #3,967 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 19 | #5,123 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,636 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,776 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,980 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,919 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Miyah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Miyah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Miyah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Miyah, and how old are they?
3,520 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,550 Americans ever recorded as Miyah. The median Miyah alive today is 15 years old; half are between 10 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 2,618 people named Miyah (2,609 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,106 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 142 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,830 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,550 |
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 Miyah born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 7 | #1,815 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 5 | #3,648 | 0.8× |
Where Miyah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Miyah is most over-represented in Florida: since 1981 it was given 1.1 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 Miyah 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 406,070 babies since 1880, Miyah is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 40 of their 12,214 babies (<1%), again the sixth most given.
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 Miyah
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 Miyah and names like it
- Compare Miyah and MiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMiyah peaked in 2012.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Miyah since 1910.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Miyah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Miyah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.