girls:
2.3k births since 1970
#3633 (36th percentile)
overall:
2.3k births since 1970
#5543 (28th percentile)
The name Myia is the #5,543 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,254 recorded births since 1970. This represents the 28.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 28.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,633 (36.4% percentile) for all time with 2,254 births since 1970.
Myia first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1970 (first recorded for girls in 1970).
For girls, Myia reached its peak popularity in 1998, achieving the 13.5% percentile (ranked #756) with 63 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 63 births per million (ranked 13.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2002, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Myia ranks #946 for girls (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 5.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Myia".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Myia. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 78.6% confident that Myia is pronounced as MAI-uh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MAI-ee-uh, at 14.3% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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