My
My was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,771 among girls’ names; 1,340 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,290 Americans named My and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 32 and 45.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of My by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does My mean?
Wiktionary, Swedish section
My is “a female given name popular in Sweden since the 1980s” Its etymology gives the sense “mu, the Greek letter μ” (my).
Coined by Finnish author Tove Jansson in 1950, via the character Little My in the Moomin books, named for my (“mu, the Greek letter μ”), because she was the smallest thing that there is.
/ˈmyː/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Swedish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is My?
#12,771 among girls’ names, 2025
My fell from #8,294 in 2015 to #12,771 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 7.8 to 4.4 per million.
113 babies in 1982, the peak
My peaked in 1982, when 113 babies were given it (91 girls, #1,362 among girls’ names). The 7 births of 2025 are 6% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,771 | under 5 | |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,830 | under 5 | |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,765 | under 5 | |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,855 | under 5 | |
| 2020 | 10 | #10,037 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 6 | #15,079 | under 5 | |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,749 | under 5 | |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,501 | under 5 | |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,294 | under 5 | |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,697 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 6 | #15,945 | under 5 | |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,793 | under 5 | |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,685 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | 8 | #13,096 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 10 | #11,238 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,834 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,571 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,534 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,466 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,194 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,276 | 5 | #11,884 |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,163 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,867 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,566 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,735 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,591 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,692 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,865 | 5 | #9,832 |
| 1994 | 23 | #4,470 | 8 | #6,775 |
| 1993 | 29 | #3,737 | 7 | #7,358 |
| 1992 | 30 | #3,638 | 11 | #5,135 |
| 1991 | 20 | #4,932 | 11 | #4,987 |
| 1990 | 23 | #4,330 | 6 | #7,785 |
| 1989 | 33 | #3,224 | 7 | #6,708 |
| 1988 | 19 | #4,595 | 5 | #8,124 |
| 1987 | 36 | #2,759 | 6 | #6,678 |
| 1986 | 40 | #2,496 | 12 | #3,799 |
| 1985 | 49 | #2,156 | 10 | #4,241 |
| 1984 | 62 | #1,760 | 17 | #2,780 |
| 1983 | 68 | #1,641 | 19 | #2,544 |
| 1982 | 91 | #1,362 | 22 | #2,315 |
| 1981 | 82 | #1,486 | 18 | #2,643 |
| 1980 | 60 | #1,823 | 22 | #2,338 |
| 1979 | 30 | #2,903 | 13 | #3,297 |
| 1978 | 19 | #3,864 | 15 | #2,880 |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,570 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 21 | #3,369 | 12 | #3,200 |
| 1975 | 18 | #3,721 | 8 | #4,180 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,625 | under 5 | |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,147 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,111 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is My a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,340 Americans recorded as My, 82% are girls and 18% boys. In 2025 it went to 7 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named My: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named My, and how old are they?
1,290 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,340 Americans ever recorded as My. The median My alive today is 41 years old; half are between 32 and 45.
The 2020 Census counted 8,159 people named My (6,476 women and girls, 1,683 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,268 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6.4 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 240 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 773 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 185 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 95 |
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 My born?
The states with the most babies named My are California, Texas and Minnesota, with 94% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Minnesota is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 275 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Texas | 56 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Minnesota | 8 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Colorado | 6 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Louisiana | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Kansas | 5 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Oklahoma | 5 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where My is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, My is most over-represented in California: since 1971 it was given 1.6 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 My 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 396,091 babies since 1880, My is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 12,052 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 My
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 My and names like it
- Compare My and MiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sMy peaked in 1982.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named My since 1910.
- Swedish namesWiktionary’s origin for My: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1982The year the most babies were named My.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named My alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.