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Miabella vs Miangel

American parents have registered 2,084 Miabellas since 1880, against 1,005 Miangels. Miabella is still ahead, with 81 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Miabella against Miangel, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Miabella Miangel

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 29 years in which either name was published, Miabella for 19 years and Miangel for 10 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Miabella Miangel
Total US births 2,0841,005
Most in one year 15467
Babies in 2025 8116
Estimated living today 2,1001,000
Median age today 1014
Peak year 20132012
Best rank 1,451st girls2,654th girls
Rank in 2025 2,256th6,838th
First recorded 20001996
Girls / boys 2,084 / 01,005 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Miangels alive today are over 14; half the Miabellas are over 10. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Miabella and Miangel.