Miya

Where Miya comes from

The dictionaries list Miya as a given name — a female given name from Japanese — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Japanese
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1958
    Miya Masaoka born
    American composer
  2. 1965
    First appearance
    #5,817 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1974
    Miya Tachibana born
    synchronized swimmer
  4. 2007
    Peak, #875
    319 babies named Miya — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2024
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,406.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Japanese.
Namesakes
  • Miya Tachibana · synchronized swimmer, born 1974
  • Miya Masaoka · American composer, born 1958
  • Miya Folick · American singer-songwriter, born 1989
  • Miya Asakawa · Japanese scriptwriter, born 1950
  • Miya Satō · Japanese volleyball player, born 1990

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.