Mia

#6 for girls in 2025, 11,078 births · #8,243 for boys in 2025, 9 births
Given to girls 99.9% of the time

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Peak · girls
2024 · 12,149 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
26 yrs
of 146 years
Total births · girls
310,219
since 1933

Mia over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201997girlsat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#611,078#8,2439
2024#512,149#4,89020
2023#611,404#5,07519
2022#811,077#8,3009
2021#811,177#7,58710
2020#811,269#7,50210
2019#812,508#5,55516
2018#712,742#6,34513
2017#613,521#5,52616
2016#614,464#5,78915
2015#614,943#5,28917
2014#613,534#6,30713
2013#613,166#5,40416
2012#812,039#7,55910
2011#911,543#9,6007
2010#1010,650#7,08711
2009#1011,438#4,92219
2008#1410,173#7,69810
2007#1510,922#4,12724
2006#1312,027#4,86518
2005#1710,846#5,27815
2004#307,399#4,79317
2003#367,083#5,87712
2002#436,259#6,52210
2001#763,918#10,5565
2000#933,451#10,3495
1999#1202,738
1998#1302,567
1997#1282,494
1996#1801,690
1995#2551,101
1994#316861
1993#330795#7,6386
1992#328822
1991#338780
1990#340782
1989#382661#3,44616
1988#387620
1987#410544#6,9515
1986#437491
1985#438500
1984#462452
1983#441470
1982#415547
1981#331719
1980#346683#6,2505
1979#375604#6,0565
1978#395523#4,1578
1977#450443
1976#503354
1975#494366
1974#464388
1973#498350
1972#451414
1971#432481
1970#450488
1969#447460
1968#335681
1967#321738
1966#328721
1965#2671,053
1964#571297
1963#1,047105
1962#1,19285
1961#1,62748
1960#1,54252
1959#1,51651
1958#1,90833
1957#1,70540
1956#1,69339
1955#1,57942
1954#1,48146
1953#1,78331
1952#1,82030
1951#1,84228
1950#2,18520
1949#2,01323
1948#2,32918
1947#2,76914
1946#2,73913
1945#3,3888
1944#3,1399
1943#3,4938
1942#3,7387
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First appearance
1933

The first year at least five girls were named Mia! It came in at #3,753, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1934–1941, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Mia
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 1 spot since 2024 (#5#6)
  • 2 spots since 2020 (#8#6)
  • Same as 2015 (#6)
  • Biggest jump: 476 spots in 1964 (#1,047#571)
  • Biggest drop: 112 spots in 1969 (#335#447)
Rise & fade · girls
91 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1933
  • Peaked 2024 at #5 (12,149 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Top 10 for 17 yrs
  • Top 10: 17 yrs · run 2009–2025
  • Top 100: 26 yrs · run 2000–2025
  • Top 1,000: 62 yrs · run 1964–2025
Share of babies · girls
1 in 119
  • Highest: 1 in 119 girls born in 2015 were named Mia (0.84%)
  • Latest: 1 in 145 girls born in 2025 (0.69%)
  • Its best rank, #5 in 2024, was only 1 in 133 (0.75%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 41.6% of all girls named Mia (129,110) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1930s6#3,753 (1933)#3,753
1940s105#2,013 (1949)#3,106
1950s360#1,481 (1954)#1,751
1960s4,240#267 (1965)#768
1970s4,411#375 (1979)#451
1980s5,687#331 (1981)#405
1990s14,630#120 (1999)#247
2000s83,516#10 (2009)#35
2010s129,110#6 (2015)#7
2020s68,154#5 (2024)#7

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Mia in 1997

girls
#128
2,494 births · 1 in 698 girls

Top girls' names in 1997

  1. #1Emily25,734
  2. #2Jessica21,045
  3. #3Ashley20,897
  4. #4Sarah20,716
  5. #5Hannah20,597
  6. #6Samantha20,170
  7. #7Taylor19,504
  8. #8Alexis17,171
  9. #9Elizabeth15,430
  10. #10Madison15,189
  11. #128Mia2,494
More about 1997

girls

1,740,710 girls got a published name in 1997; 1 in 698 of them was named Mia, which outranked 99.2% of the 16,163 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Mia
  1. #125Adriana2,552
  2. #126Veronica2,544
  3. #127Melanie2,522
  4. #128Mia2,494
  5. #129Jade2,492
  6. #130Brittney2,483
  7. #131Summer2,480
Biggest movers since 1996
Risers
  1. 9,582Yulisa#10,567#985
  2. 3,882Yulissa#4,306#424
  3. 2,634Tea#3,429#795
  4. 2,046Taya#2,901#855
  5. 1,202Julisa#1,930#728
Fallers
  1. 931Yamilex#707#1,638
  2. 477Suzette#998#1,475
  3. 457Chynna#834#1,291
  4. 396Moesha#547#943
  5. 377Daijah#975#1,352

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1997