Mia

Where Mia comes from

A German, Dutch and North Germanic diminutive of Maria.
— Wiktionary's entry for Mia
  • German
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1933
    First appearance
    #3,753 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1965
    Mia Mottley born
    prime minister of Barbados since 2018
  3. 1993
    Mia Khalifa born
    Lebanese-American former pornographic film actress
  4. 2024
    Peak, #5
    12,149 babies named Mia — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, or Danish.
Namesakes
  • Mia Khalifa · Lebanese-American former pornographic film actress, born 1993
  • Mia Mottley · prime minister of Barbados since 2018, born 1965
  • Mia Hamm · American soccer player, born 1972
  • Mia Wasikowska · Australian actress, born 1989
  • Mia Goth · British actress and model, born 1993

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.