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Mya vs Myasia

American parents have registered 62,363 Myas since 1880, against 1,711 Myasias. Mya is still ahead, with 697 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Mya Myasia

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 1994, when Mya had 103 and Myasia had 33.

Side by side

  Mya Myasia
Total US births 62,3631,711
Most in one year 3,41596
Babies in 2025 69721
Estimated living today 62,0001,700
Median age today 1618
Peak year 20092008
Best rank 97th girls2,106th girls
Rank in 2025 443rd5,722nd
First recorded 19541987
Girls / boys 62,305 / 581,711 / 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 Myasias alive today are over 18; half the Myas are over 16. 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.

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