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Mia

Girls' name · Current

Living in the US
~307,600 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank
#6 among girls
Births in 2025
11,087 310,610 since 1880
Typical age
12 years, median

Mia popularity over time

Mia rank by birth year, 1933–2025Mia ranked #3,753 in 1933 and #6 in 2025. Its best rank in the period was #5, in 2024.#10#100#1,000#619401960198020002020
Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1933–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

More children were named Mia in 2015 than in any other year — 14,960 of them. 1933 is the earliest year with at least five recorded births. It has held a top-100 place in 26 separate years.

The 2025 position is #6, on 11,087 births. The ten-year change is -26%.

Babies named Mia per yearPeaks at 14,960 births in 2015.14,960 in 2015019401960198020002020
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Mia?

About 307,600 people named Mia are alive in the United States today. That is out of 310,610 recorded births since 1880.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Mia?

Median age among living Mias: 12. Most living bearers were born in the 2010s. By the site’s era rules that makes Mia a current name.

Your Mia

Ages of living people named MiaHalf of living Mias are older than 12 and half younger.median 12020406080
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Where Mia is most common

Relative to births, New Mexico carries 1.9× the national share of Mias. Connecticut, Rhode Island and Nevada follow.

Where Mia is used more than average5 states use the name Mia more than the national average.Alaska: not over-representedAKMaine: not over-representedMEVermont: not over-representedVTNew Hampshire: not over-representedNHWashington: not over-representedWAIdaho: not over-representedIDMontana: not over-representedMTNorth Dakota: not over-representedNDMinnesota: not over-representedMNIllinois: not over-representedILWisconsin: not over-representedWIMichigan: not over-representedMINew York: not over-representedNYOregon: not over-representedORNevada: 1.7× the national rateNVWyoming: not over-representedWYSouth Dakota: not over-representedSDIowa: not over-representedIAIndiana: not over-representedINOhio: not over-representedOHPennsylvania: not over-representedPANew Jersey: not over-representedNJConnecticut: 1.8× the national rateCTRhode Island: 1.8× the national rateRICalifornia: not over-representedCAUtah: not over-representedUTColorado: not over-representedCONebraska: not over-representedNEMissouri: not over-representedMOKentucky: not over-representedKYWest Virginia: not over-representedWVVirginia: not over-representedVAMaryland: not over-representedMDDelaware: not over-representedDEMassachusetts: not over-representedMAArizona: not over-representedAZNew Mexico: 1.9× the national rateNMKansas: not over-representedKSArkansas: not over-representedARTennessee: not over-representedTNNorth Carolina: not over-representedNCSouth Carolina: not over-representedSCDistrict of Columbia: not over-representedDCOklahoma: not over-representedOKLouisiana: not over-representedLAMississippi: not over-representedMSAlabama: not over-representedALGeorgia: not over-representedGAHawaii: 1.7× the national rateHITexas: not over-representedTXFlorida: not over-representedFL
Same as national3× or more
Location quotient, 2016–2025. Shaded states use the name more than the country does, relative to their own births. Exact figures are in the table below.
States where Mia is over-represented, 2016–2025. The location quotient compares the state's share of the name with the national share.
StateBirthsvs national rate
New Mexico 859 1.9×
Connecticut 1,581 1.8×
Rhode Island 377 1.8×
Nevada 1,354 1.7×
Hawaii 373 1.7×

Mia in England and Wales

In England and Wales, Mia ranked #21 in 2025 on 1,372 births. That is 40% lower than five years earlier.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Counts below three are suppressed by ONS.

Where the name Mia comes from

A German, Dutch and diminutive of Maria.

Etymology summarised from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0. Wiktionary entry.

Notable people named Mia

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
NameKnown forYearsEditions
Mia Khalifa Lebanese-American former pornographic film actress 1993 86
Mia Mottley prime minister of Barbados since 2018 1965 64
Mia Hamm American soccer player 1972 60
Mia Wasikowska Australian actress 1989 58
Mia Goth British actress 1993 45
Mia Malkova American pornographic actress 1992 42
Mia Kirshner Canadian actress 1975 36
Mia Sara American actress 1967 31
Photo credits (5)

The sharpest rise. Births under this name jumped from 297 in 1964 to 1,053 in 1965 — 3.5 times over in a single year.

Birth records contain the rise and nothing about its cause. This site does not supply one.

People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

Names similar to Mia

Matched by sound and spelling inside this dataset, then ordered by total recorded births. This is not a claim about shared etymology.

Same feel, less common

The same matches, limited to names given at most half as often as Mia was in 2025.

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