How rare is the name Myah?

8,030 people in the United States have the first name Myah, about 1 in 37,613. It ranks #2,865 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

MYAH

#2,865

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
8,030
About
1 in 37,613
This common or more
81.1%
Who bears it

Of the 8,030 people named Myah, 49.5% reported their origin as White, 18.8% as Hispanic or Latino and 18.5% as Black. Virtually all are female (99.6%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Myah peaked in 2009, when 510 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19752025
Peak year
2009
Births that year
510
In 2025*
116 ▼77%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 10,255 babies have been given the name since 1975. 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.

Myah by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2000s, when it ranked #1,274. The largest share of babies named Myah, 58.9%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1970s#12,77843
1980s#9,681106
1990s#2,698982
2000s#1,2743,924
2010s#1,3074,144
2020s#2,4311,056
Generation X 1965–800.6%
Millennials 1981–963.8%
Generation Z 1997–1258.9%
2013 and later36.6%

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 Myah is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Myah has been most common in Indiana (2×), Florida (2×), and Washington (1.9×), and least common in Alabama (0.22×).

8,370 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.

Exactly as common as Myah

1 other first name also has 8,030 people.

#2,865 Merry · 8,030

Either side of Myah

#2,864 Sade · 8,033#2,865 Merry · 8,030#2,867 Duke · 8,029#2,868 Cristy · 8,027

Spelled almost the same

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

#889 Mya · 51,028#15,666 Myiah · 731

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