How rare is the name Mya?

51,028 people in the United States have the first name Mya, about 1 in 5,919. It ranks #889 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

MYA

#889

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
51,028
About
1 in 5,919
This common or more
68.3%
Who bears it

Of the 51,028 people named Mya, 37.1% reported their origin as White, 24.4% as Black and 22.9% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.5%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Mya peaked in 2009, when 3,415 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19542025
Peak year
2009
Births that year
3,415
In 2025*
697 ▼80%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 62,363 babies have been given the name since 1954. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Mya by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2000s, when it ranked #254. The largest share of babies named Mya, 65.2%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1950s#13,00310
1960s#6,471100
1970s#3,526377
1980s#3,216546
1990s#1,0794,166
2000s#25428,840
2010s#33422,395
2020s#6715,929
Baby boom 1946–640.1%
Generation X 1965–800.9%
Millennials 1981–962%
Generation Z 1997–1265.2%
2013 and later31.9%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Mya is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Mya has been most common in Nevada (2.6×), Arizona (1.9×), and Florida (1.7×), and least common in Wyoming (0.45×).

60,710 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Mya

#887 Terrance · 51,100#888 Rosemarie · 51,041#890 Daryl · 50,922#891 Rodolfo · 50,870

Spelled almost the same

6 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Mya, most common first.

#2,836 My · 8,159#2,865 Myah · 8,030#7,603 Myia · 1,991#15,496 Myo · 742#37,614 Myha · 207#43,660 Myya · 161

Also a last name

As a last name, Mya ranks #63,720 of 156,621, with 338 people. See Mya as a last name

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