Myah
Myah was given to 116 girls in 2025, #1,752 among girls’ names; 10,255 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 10,200 Americans named Myah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 11 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Myah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Myah mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Myah is “a female given name.”
Rare fanciful spelling of Mya, Maia, Maya.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Myah?
#1,752 among girls’ names, 2025
Myah fell from #687 in 2015 to #1,752 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.23 to 0.07 per 1,000.
510 babies in 2009, the peak
Myah peaked in 2009, when 510 girls were given it, #591 among girls’ names. The 116 births of 2025 are 23% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 116 | #1,752 | 0.07 |
| 2024 | 148 | #1,479 | 0.09 |
| 2023 | 157 | #1,426 | 0.10 |
| 2022 | 188 | #1,276 | 0.11 |
| 2021 | 225 | #1,102 | 0.14 |
| 2020 | 222 | #1,102 | 0.14 |
| 2019 | 288 | #921 | 0.17 |
| 2018 | 351 | #779 | 0.21 |
| 2017 | 370 | #754 | 0.21 |
| 2016 | 445 | #657 | 0.25 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 417 | #687 | 0.23 |
| 2014 | 390 | #719 | 0.22 |
| 2013 | 441 | #639 | 0.25 |
| 2012 | 474 | #605 | 0.27 |
| 2011 | 505 | #578 | 0.29 |
| 2010 | 463 | #636 | 0.26 |
| 2009 | 510 | #591 | 0.28 |
| 2008 | 508 | #604 | 0.27 |
| 2007 | 489 | #615 | 0.25 |
| 2006 | 447 | #648 | 0.24 |
| 2005 | 370 | #732 | 0.20 |
| 2004 | 326 | #787 | 0.18 |
| 2003 | 361 | #716 | 0.20 |
| 2002 | 342 | #720 | 0.19 |
| 2001 | 296 | #798 | 0.16 |
| 2000 | 269 | #833 | 0.15 |
| 1999 | 276 | #792 | 0.16 |
| 1998 | 273 | #787 | 0.15 |
| 1997 | 129 | #1,337 | 0.07 |
| 1996 | 68 | #2,050 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 62 | #2,172 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 58 | #2,280 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 34 | #3,325 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 25 | #4,175 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 29 | #3,686 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 28 | #3,778 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,463 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,988 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,826 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,225 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,953 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,891 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,794 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,958 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,150 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,251 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 19 | #3,994 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,406 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,684 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,692 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Myah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Myah has been given almost only to girls: 6 boys in 50 years of records.
Girls and boys named Myah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Myah, and how old are they?
10,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 10,255 Americans ever recorded as Myah. The median Myah alive today is 16 years old; half are between 11 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 8,030 people named Myah (7,999 women and girls, 31 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 9,180 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 58 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 383 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5,980 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,730 |
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 Myah born?
The states with the most babies named Myah are Texas, California and Florida, with 65% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 15 | #1,598 | 0.7× |
| California | 11 | #1,910 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 9 | #1,512 | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 8 | #933 | 1.5× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,356 | 0.9× |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,155 | 1.7× |
Where Myah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Myah is most over-represented in Indiana: since 1975 it was given 1.7 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 Myah 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, Myah is the third most given (2.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 116 of their 12,214 babies (<1%), the fifth most given that year.
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 Myah
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 Myah and names like it
- Compare Myah and MiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMyah peaked in 2009.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Myah since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Myah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Myah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.