Mya

What Mya means

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

Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #146 in 2015, #443 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Mya?

US: Falling: down from #146 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #114 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2009, when 3,415 girls got the name (#97 that year). First in the US records in 1954.

How common

• About 1 in 2,306 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 1,248 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 942 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 ND (2.22 per 1,000 girls), SD (1.64 per 1,000 girls), ME (1.61 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Mya is #443 in the US and #230 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 Mya were girls.

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

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Maya3,712 US · 1,259 E&W
• Myah116 US · 43 E&W
• Miya123 US · 31 E&W
• Maiya75 US · 25 E&W
• Mayah61 US · 11 E&W
• Miyah40 US · 17 E&W
• Meya8 US · 3 E&W
• Maaya6 US · 3 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 Mya

Girls

• Juliana#256Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #256 vs #1,892 in 2025
• Julianna#398Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #190 in 2015, #398 in 2025
• Lilly#252Form of Lilian, possibly meaning “lily”^*
• Lillian#57possibly “lily”^*
• Lilian#560possibly “lily”^*
• Annabelle#343Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #92 in 2015, #343 in 2025

For a brother

• Gabriel#37Finnish, meaning “God is my strong man, God is my hero”^*
• Adrian#74“from the Roman harbor Hadria”^*
• Angel#67Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #67 vs #1,307 in 2025
• Dominic#106Editor’s note Down from #68 in 2015 to #106 in 2025 in the US
• Maximilian#590German, meaning “the greatest”^*
• Max#180Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #48 vs #180 in 2025

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