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Miabella vs Miah

American parents have registered 9,593 Miahs since 1880, against 2,084 Miabellas. Miah is still ahead, with 144 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Miabella against Miah, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Miabella Miah

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

Miah has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1974 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Miabella had 81 and Miah had 144.

Side by side

  Miabella Miah
Total US births 2,0849,593
Most in one year 154499
Babies in 2025 81144
Estimated living today 2,1009,500
Median age today 1014
Peak year 20132012
Best rank 1,451st girls584th girls
Rank in 2025 2,256th1,484th
First recorded 20001974
Girls / boys 2,084 / 09,583 / 10

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 Miahs alive today are over 14; half the Miabellas are over 10. That is 4 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 Miabella Miah
England and Wales 341,132

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: Miabella and Miah.