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Miya vs Miyanna

American parents have registered 8,071 Miyas since 1880, against 532 Miyannas. Miya is still ahead, with 123 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Miya against Miyanna, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Miya Miyanna

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

Miya has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1965 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2021, when Miya had 200 and Miyanna had 28.

Side by side

  Miya Miyanna
Total US births 8,071532
Most in one year 31928
Babies in 2025 12317
Estimated living today 8,000530
Median age today 1713
Peak year 20072021
Best rank 875th girls4,719th girls
Rank in 2025 1,673rd6,546th
First recorded 19651998
Girls / boys 8,071 / 0532 / 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 Miyas alive today are over 17; half the Miyannas are over 13. 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: Miya and Miyanna.