# Miya (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/miya/  
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 | Japanese |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 8,071 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 8,071 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,825, 1996 to 2025 |

## 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 | 273 | 947 |
| 2012 | 280 | 921 |
| 2013 | 294 | 879 |
| 2014 | 303 | 897 |
| 2015 | 279 | 971 |
| 2016 | 285 | 954 |
| 2017 | 260 | 998 |
| 2018 | 219 | 1,119 |
| 2019 | 207 | 1,160 |
| 2020 | 205 | 1,155 |
| 2021 | 200 | 1,205 |
| 2022 | 189 | 1,273 |
| 2023 | 173 | 1,314 |
| 2024 | 159 | 1,411 |
| 2025 | 123 | 1,681 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 85 | 499 |
| 2012 | 105 | 435 |
| 2013 | 69 | 593 |
| 2014 | 83 | 508 |
| 2015 | 99 | 441 |
| 2016 | 102 | 433 |
| 2017 | 74 | 576 |
| 2018 | 78 | 536 |
| 2019 | 74 | 545 |
| 2020 | 63 | 609 |
| 2021 | 85 | 496 |
| 2022 | 55 | 676 |
| 2023 | 52 | 694 |
| 2024 | 58 | 666 |
| 2025 | 31 | 1,079 |

## People named Miya

- Miya Masaoka, American composer (born 1958)

## 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.