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Mya vs Myana

American parents have registered 62,363 Myas since 1880, against 559 Myanas. Mya is still ahead, with 697 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Mya against Myana, 1880 to 2025 0 1k 2k 3k 4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Mya Myana

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

Mya has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1954 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1992, when Mya had 92 and Myana had 6.

Side by side

  Mya Myana
Total US births 62,363559
Most in one year 3,41536
Babies in 2025 69712
Estimated living today 62,000550
Median age today 1616
Peak year 20092005
Best rank 97th girls3,942nd girls
Rank in 2025 443rd8,362nd
First recorded 19541991
Girls / boys 62,305 / 58559 / 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 Mya Myana
France 14,36090

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: Mya and Myana.