Mia

What Mia means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Mia yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Steady in the US: #6 in 2015 and #6 in 2025. About 1 in 150 US girls in the 2025 records Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Mia?

US: Steady: #6 in 2015, #6 now. England & Wales: Falling: down from #9 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2015, when 14,943 girls got the name (#6 that year). First in the US records in 1933.

How common

• About 1 in 145 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 185 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 161 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in DE (19.07 per 1,000 girls), NM (14.12 per 1,000 girls), NV (13.26 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Mia is #6 in the US and #21 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9% of US babies named Mia were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Maia715 US · 255 E&W
• Miah144 US · 25 E&W
• Maiah33 US
• Mea17 US · 7 E&W
• Mio15 US · 3 E&W
• Meah15 US
• Miia8 US · 4 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Mia

Girls

• Ava#11Editor’s note Down from #4 in 2015 to #11 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 210 US girls in the 2025 records
• Lorelei#441“murmuring rock or lurking rock”^*
• Lorelai#333Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #333 vs #807 in 2025
• Emma#3“entire”^*
• Evelyn#8Same root as Eileen, possibly meaning “radiance, beauty”^*
• Adelaide#289“noble + nature, character”^*

For a brother

• Finn#206“the Sami”^*
• Soren#464Editor’s note Up from #574 in 2015 to #464 in 2025 in the US
• Alonso#785Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #785 vs #1,897 in 2025
• Wyatt#38“war + hard, brave”^*
• Kai#93“warrior”^*
• Bruno#740“brown”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Germanic, Scandinavian & Norse, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Mia’s. Rank is US 2025.