girls:
286.8k births since 1933
#135 (98th percentile)
boys:
362 births since 1978
#4224 (8th percentile)
overall:
287.2k births since 1933
#272 (96th percentile)
The name Mia is the #272 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 287,179 recorded births since 1933. This represents the 96.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 96.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #135 (97.7% percentile) for all time with 286,817 births since 1933. For boys, it ranks #4,224 (7.8% percentile) for all time with 362 births since 1978.
Mia first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1933 (1933 for girls and 1978 for boys). Birth data for Mia is available in 84 out of the 91 years between 1933 and 2023 (84 years for girls and 30 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Mia has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Mia reached its peak popularity in 2014, achieving the 99.5% percentile (ranked #6) with 6,915 births per million. The name was most common in 2015, with 7,656 births per million (ranked 99.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Mia ranks #6 for girls (99.5% percentile) with 6,494 births per million, which is 84.8% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Mia reached its peak popularity in 2007, achieving the 2.2% percentile (ranked #864) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 2007, with 11 births per million (ranked 2.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Mia is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #897 (1.5% percentile) with 10 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Mia".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Mia is pronounced as MEE-uh, which has 2 syllables.
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