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Myana vs Myasia

American parents have registered 1,711 Myasias since 1880, against 559 Myanas. Myasia is still ahead, with 21 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Myana against Myasia, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Myana Myasia

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

Myasia has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1987 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2017, when Myana had 21 and Myasia had 27.

Side by side

  Myana Myasia
Total US births 5591,711
Most in one year 3696
Babies in 2025 1221
Estimated living today 5501,700
Median age today 1618
Peak year 20052008
Best rank 3,942nd girls2,106th girls
Rank in 2025 8,362nd5,722nd
First recorded 19911987
Girls / boys 559 / 01,711 / 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 Myasias alive today are over 18; half the Myanas are over 16. That is 2 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: Myana and Myasia.