Mya
#443 for girls in 2025, 697 births · Last seen for boys in 2013 at #10,728
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2009 · 3,415 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- 2 yrsof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 62,305since 1954
Mya over time
Rank among girls' names. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #443 | 697 | — | |
| 2024 | #366 | 855 | — | |
| 2023 | #341 | 916 | — | |
| 2022 | #301 | 1,061 | — | |
| 2021 | #271 | 1,159 | — | |
| 2020 | #243 | 1,241 | — | |
| 2019 | #220 | 1,402 | — | |
| 2018 | #194 | 1,564 | — | |
| 2017 | #172 | 1,753 | — | |
| 2016 | #167 | 1,920 | — | |
| 2015 | #146 | 2,209 | — | |
| 2014 | #137 | 2,409 | — | |
| 2013 | #116 | 2,705 | #10,728 | 6 |
| 2012 | #124 | 2,552 | — | |
| 2011 | #105 | 2,864 | #10,808 | 6 |
| 2010 | #101 | 2,999 | #10,766 | 6 |
| 2009 | #97 | 3,415 | — | |
| 2008 | #103 | 3,339 | — | |
| 2007 | #102 | 3,325 | #9,788 | 7 |
| 2006 | #102 | 3,356 | #12,055 | 5 |
| 2005 | #98 | 3,208 | — | |
| 2004 | #116 | 2,896 | #6,138 | 12 |
| 2003 | #116 | 2,952 | #10,894 | 5 |
| 2002 | #145 | 2,281 | #9,392 | 6 |
| 2001 | #149 | 2,189 | — | |
| 2000 | #175 | 1,839 | #10,349 | 5 |
| 1999 | #166 | 1,885 | — | |
| 1998 | #238 | 1,284 | — | |
| 1997 | #993 | 196 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,186 | 152 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,265 | 133 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,511 | 103 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,271 | 134 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,643 | 92 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,575 | 97 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,644 | 90 | — | |
| 1989 | #2,222 | 54 | — | |
| 1988 | #2,051 | 57 | — | |
| 1987 | #2,199 | 49 | — | |
| 1986 | #2,228 | 46 | — | |
| 1985 | #2,172 | 48 | — | |
| 1984 | #2,266 | 43 | — | |
| 1983 | #1,839 | 57 | — | |
| 1982 | #2,050 | 50 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,867 | 58 | — | |
| 1980 | #1,448 | 84 | — | |
| 1979 | #1,694 | 65 | — | |
| 1978 | #1,386 | 84 | — | |
| 1977 | #1,901 | 52 | — | |
| 1976 | #2,865 | 26 | — | |
| 1975 | #2,357 | 34 | — | |
| 1974 | #2,757 | 26 | — | |
| 1973 | #3,122 | 21 | — | |
| 1972 | #3,062 | 21 | — | |
| 1971 | #2,955 | 23 | — | |
| 1970 | #2,779 | 25 | — | |
| 1969 | #4,723 | 10 | — | |
| 1968 | #3,169 | 17 | — | |
| 1967 | #2,781 | 20 | — | |
| 1966 | #2,937 | 18 | — | |
| 1965 | #3,549 | 13 | — | |
| 1964 | #5,474 | 7 | — | |
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| 1962 | #4,865 | 8 | — | |
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| 1960 | #5,168 | 7 | — | |
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| 1958 | #6,103 | 5 | — | |
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| 1954 | #5,753 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Mya! It came in at #5,753, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1954–1959, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Mya
- 77 spots since 2024 (#366 → #443)
- 200 spots since 2020 (#243 → #443)
- 297 spots since 2015 (#146 → #443)
- Biggest jump: 755 spots in 1998 (#993 → #238)
- Biggest drop: 77 spots in 2025 (#366 → #443)
- Debuted 1954
- Peaked 2009 at #97 (3,415 births)
- Births halved by 2018, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: 2 yrs · 2005–2009
- Top 1,000: 29 yrs · run 1997–2025
- Highest: 1 in 538 girls born in 2009 were named Mya (0.19%)
- Latest: 1 in 2,306 girls born in 2025 (0.04%)
- 46.2% of all girls named Mya (28,800) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 10 | #5,753 (1954) | #5,928 |
| 1960s | 100 | #2,781 (1967) | #4,083 |
| 1970s | 377 | #1,386 (1978) | #2,488 |
| 1980s | 546 | #1,448 (1980) | #2,034 |
| 1990s | 4,166 | #166 (1999) | #1,149 |
| 2000s | 28,800 | #97 (2009) | #120 |
| 2010s | 22,377 | #101 (2010) | #148 |
| 2020s | 5,929 | #243 (2020) | #328 |
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.
Mya in 2002
Top girls' names in 2002
Top boys' names in 2002
More about 2002
girls
1,796,882 girls got a published name in 2002; 1 in 788 of them was named Mya, which outranked 99.2% of the 18,086 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,941,514 boys got a published name in 2002; 1 in 323,586 of them was named Mya, which outranked 24.8% of the 12,489 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #8,456Zyire7
- #8,456Zymere7
- #8,456Zyrus7
- #9,392Mya6
- #9,392Aalijah6
- #9,392Aarav6
- #9,392Aarik6
- #10,667Aakarsh5
- #10,667Aakeem5
- #10,667Aamarion5
Tied with 1,274 names at #9,392; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.