Mya
Mya was given to 697 girls in 2025, #444 among girls’ names; 62,363 Americans have been recorded with it since 1954 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 61,800 Americans named Mya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 12 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Mya mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Mya is “a female given name from Latin.”
A modern phonetic spelling of Maia or Maya.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Mya?
#444 among girls’ names, 2025
Mya fell from #146 in 2015 to #444 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 1.2 to 0.43 per 1,000.
3,415 babies in 2009, the peak
Mya peaked in 2009, when 3,415 girls were given it, #97 among girls’ names. The 697 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 697 | #444 | 0.43 |
| 2024 | 855 | #366 | 0.53 |
| 2023 | 916 | #341 | 0.57 |
| 2022 | 1,061 | #302 | 0.65 |
| 2021 | 1,159 | #271 | 0.71 |
| 2020 | 1,241 | #243 | 0.77 |
| 2019 | 1,402 | #220 | 0.84 |
| 2018 | 1,564 | #194 | 0.92 |
| 2017 | 1,753 | #172 | 1.0 |
| 2016 | 1,920 | #167 | 1.1 |
Every recorded year (66)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 2,209 | #146 | 1.2 |
| 2014 | 2,409 | #138 | 1.3 |
| 2013 | 2,705 | #116 | 1.5 |
| 2012 | 2,552 | #124 | 1.4 |
| 2011 | 2,864 | #105 | 1.6 |
| 2010 | 2,999 | #101 | 1.7 |
| 2009 | 3,415 | #97 | 1.9 |
| 2008 | 3,339 | #103 | 1.8 |
| 2007 | 3,325 | #102 | 1.7 |
| 2006 | 3,356 | #102 | 1.8 |
| 2005 | 3,208 | #98 | 1.7 |
| 2004 | 2,896 | #116 | 1.6 |
| 2003 | 2,952 | #116 | 1.6 |
| 2002 | 2,281 | #145 | 1.3 |
| 2001 | 2,189 | #149 | 1.2 |
| 2000 | 1,839 | #175 | 1.0 |
| 1999 | 1,885 | #166 | 1.1 |
| 1998 | 1,284 | #238 | 0.73 |
| 1997 | 196 | #994 | 0.11 |
| 1996 | 152 | #1,190 | 0.09 |
| 1995 | 133 | #1,268 | 0.08 |
| 1994 | 103 | #1,516 | 0.06 |
| 1993 | 134 | #1,276 | 0.07 |
| 1992 | 92 | #1,652 | 0.05 |
| 1991 | 97 | #1,575 | 0.05 |
| 1990 | 90 | #1,650 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 54 | #2,233 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 57 | #2,062 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 49 | #2,218 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 46 | #2,253 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 48 | #2,197 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 43 | #2,282 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 57 | #1,848 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 50 | #2,070 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 58 | #1,878 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 84 | #1,453 | 0.05 |
| 1979 | 65 | #1,702 | 0.04 |
| 1978 | 84 | #1,392 | 0.05 |
| 1977 | 52 | #1,916 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 26 | #2,911 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 34 | #2,391 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 26 | #2,811 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 21 | #3,197 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 21 | #3,137 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 23 | #3,034 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 25 | #2,834 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,938 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 17 | #3,265 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 20 | #2,838 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 18 | #3,007 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 13 | #3,675 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,835 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 8 | #5,157 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,535 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,727 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,354 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mya has been given almost only to girls: 58 boys in 66 years of records.
Girls and boys named Mya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mya, and how old are they?
61,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 62,363 Americans ever recorded as Mya. The median Mya alive today is 17 years old; half are between 12 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 51,028 people named Mya (50,749 women and girls, 279 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 56,275 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 27 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 506 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,230 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 40,200 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 19,800 |
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 Mya born?
The states with the most babies named Mya are California, Texas and Florida, with 29% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 74 | #455 | 0.7× |
| Texas | 61 | #527 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 59 | #317 | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 37 | #305 | 1.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 34 | #324 | 1.2× |
| New York | 33 | #514 | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 29 | #398 | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 24 | #453 | 1.0× |
| Minnesota | 24 | #240 | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 23 | #387 | 1.4× |
Where Mya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Mya is most over-represented in South Dakota: since 1954 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 Mya 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 408,049 babies since 1880, Mya is the second most given (15% of them). In 2025 it was given to 697 of their 12,214 babies (5.7%), again the second 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 Mya
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 Mya and names like it
- Compare Mya and MiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMya peaked in 2009.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mya since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Mya: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Mya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Mya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.