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Myia

Myia is a girl's name that peaked in 1998, when it was the 1,392nd most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 2,200 Myias are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 25.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Myia

By the numbers

Total US births
2,267
Estimated living today
2,200
Median age today
25
Peak year
1998
Best rank
1,392nd
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1970

How old the living Myias are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 2,267 babies given the name since 1970, about 2,200 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 540 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2000 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Myia is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Myia is most concentrated in Michigan (3.8×), Georgia (3.7×), Tennessee (2.4×), Louisiana (2.3×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1998

The most popular girls’ names the year Myia peaked:

All the names of 1998

Myia elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Myia 138 2,328th
France girls Myia 65 3,254th
Northern Ireland girls Myia 9 377th
Ireland girls Myia 6 862nd

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.