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Miyah vs Miyana

American parents have registered 3,550 Miyahs since 1880, against 660 Miyanas. Miyah is still ahead, with 40 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Miyah against Miyana, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Miyah Miyana

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

Miyah has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1981 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Miyah had 40 and Miyana had 33.

Side by side

  Miyah Miyana
Total US births 3,550660
Most in one year 20841
Babies in 2025 4033
Estimated living today 3,500660
Median age today 1415
Peak year 20122008
Best rank 1,179th girls3,859th girls
Rank in 2025 3,712th4,265th
First recorded 19811992
Girls / boys 3,550 / 0660 / 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Miyah Miyana
England and Wales 5143
France 20040

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: Miyah and Miyana.