# Miah (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/miah/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 9,593 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 10 / 9,583 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,132, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Anglicized from Bengali মিঞা (mĩa /⁠mĩa⁠/), itself borrowed from Classical Persian میان (miyān). Doublet of Miya.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 492 | 586 |
| 2012 | 499 | 585 |
| 2013 | 488 | 585 |
| 2014 | 463 | 621 |
| 2015 | 470 | 615 |
| 2016 | 477 | 628 |
| 2017 | 344 | 798 |
| 2018 | 331 | 820 |
| 2019 | 309 | 867 |
| 2020 | 235 | 1,058 |
| 2021 | 234 | 1,072 |
| 2022 | 231 | 1,085 |
| 2023 | 222 | 1,113 |
| 2024 | 229 | 1,084 |
| 2025 | 144 | 1,490 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 5 | 11,019 |
| 2003 | 5 | 12,117 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 69 | 583 |
| 2012 | 65 | 639 |
| 2013 | 58 | 684 |
| 2014 | 40 | 920 |
| 2015 | 55 | 722 |
| 2016 | 43 | 861 |
| 2017 | 52 | 764 |
| 2018 | 47 | 806 |
| 2019 | 33 | 1,039 |
| 2020 | 38 | 928 |
| 2021 | 33 | 1,039 |
| 2022 | 26 | 1,245 |
| 2023 | 30 | 1,108 |
| 2024 | 12 | 2,253 |
| 2025 | 25 | 1,271 |

## People named Miah

- Miah-Marie Langolis, Canadian basketball player (born 1991)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.