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Mia vs Miabella

American parents have registered 310,610 Mias since 1880, against 2,084 Miabellas. Mia is still ahead, with 11,087 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Mia against Miabella, 1880 to 2025 0 4k 8k 12k 16k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Mia Miabella

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Mia has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1933 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2012, when Mia had 12,049 and Miabella had 142.

Side by side

  Mia Miabella
Total US births 310,6102,084
Most in one year 14,960154
Babies in 2025 11,08781
Estimated living today 307,0002,100
Median age today 1210
Peak year 20152013
Best rank 6th girls1,451st girls
Rank in 2025 6th2,256th
First recorded 19332000
Girls / boys 310,219 / 3912,084 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Mias alive today are over 12; half the Miabellas are over 10. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Mia Miabella
England and Wales 68,56734

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Mia and Miabella.