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Miah vs Miamor

American parents have registered 9,593 Miahs since 1880, against 865 Miamors. Miah is still ahead, with 144 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Miah Miamor

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 Miah had 144 and Miamor had 58.

Side by side

  Miah Miamor
Total US births 9,593865
Most in one year 49976
Babies in 2025 14458
Estimated living today 9,500860
Median age today 146
Peak year 20122020
Best rank 584th girls2,317th girls
Rank in 2025 1,484th2,895th
First recorded 19742005
Girls / boys 9,583 / 10865 / 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 Miahs alive today are over 14; half the Miamors are over 6. That is 8 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.

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