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Miyana vs Miyeko

American parents have registered 660 Miyanas since 1880, against 132 Miyekos. Miyana is still ahead, with 33 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Miyana against Miyeko, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Miyana Miyeko

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 48 years in which either name was published, Miyana for 33 years and Miyeko for 15 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Miyana Miyeko
Total US births 660132
Most in one year 4117
Babies in 2025 33under 5
Estimated living today 6604
Median age today 1596
Peak year 20081924
Best rank 3,859th girls2,212th girls
Rank in 2025 4,265thunranked
First recorded 19921917
Girls / boys 660 / 0132 / 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 Miyekos alive today are over 96; half the Miyanas are over 15. That is 81 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: Miyana and Miyeko.