girls:
9.2k births since 1974
#1681 (71st percentile)
boys:
10 births since 1999
#4576 (0th percentile)
overall:
9.2k births since 1974
#2807 (64th percentile)
The name Miah is the #2,807 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 9,211 recorded births since 1974. This represents the 63.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 63.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,681 (70.6% percentile) for all time with 9,201 births since 1974. For boys, it ranks #4,576 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 10 births since 1999.
Miah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1974 (1974 for girls and 1999 for boys). Birth data for Miah is available in 48 out of the 50 years between 1974 and 2023 (48 years for girls and 2 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 Miah has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Miah reached its peak popularity in 2011, achieving the 46.8% percentile (ranked #501) with 253 births per million. The name was most common in 2012, with 257 births per million (ranked 46.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2015, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Miah ranks #735 for girls (22.4% percentile) with 124 births per million, which is 48.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Miah reached its peak popularity in 1999, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #805) with 2 births per million. The name was most common in 1999, with 2 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2003.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Miah".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Miah", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 24 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Mia" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Mia..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Miah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 74.4% confident that Miah is pronounced as MAI-uh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MEE-uh, at 25.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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