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Miah vs Miasia

American parents have registered 9,593 Miahs since 1880, against 591 Miasias. Miah is still ahead, with 144 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Miah against Miasia, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Miah Miasia

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

Miah has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1974 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1985, when Miah had 7 and Miasia had 5.

Side by side

  Miah Miasia
Total US births 9,593591
Most in one year 49939
Babies in 2025 1448
Estimated living today 9,500590
Median age today 1418
Peak year 20122008
Best rank 584th girls4,006th girls
Rank in 2025 1,484th10,917th
First recorded 19741985
Girls / boys 9,583 / 10591 / 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 Miasias alive today are over 18; half the Miahs are over 14. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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