Miya

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Miya: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Miya: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #281 in 2020, and it stood at #483 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
67times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#281highest recorded position
15groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3126
1997	#1958
1998	#1259
1999	#1216
2000	#876
2001	#657
2002	#564
2003	#637
2004	#542
2005	#583
2006	#580
2007	#559
2008	#464
2009	#428
2010	#476
2011	#499
2012	#435
2013	#593
2014	#508
2015	#441
2016	#433
2017	#576
2018	#536
2019	#545
2020	#609
2021	#496
2022	#676
2023	#694
2024	#666

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #441 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #666 among girls in England and Wales, #790 among girls in Scotland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #3126 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2004–2022
Highest recorded position: #281 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2020 (recorded 2004–2022).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #483 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Miya appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 1,794 births with the name.

Miya across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Miya's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#3126 (1996)	#428 (2009)	#666 (2024)	29 of 29	1,794 (1996–2024)	105 (2012)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#576 (2004)	#404 (2014)	#483 (2025)	22 of 22	134 (2004–2025)	11 (2014)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#372 (2004)	#281 (2020)	#418 (2022)	15 of 19	65 (2004–2022)	6 (2010)

Miya by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Miya in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	43	4 of 10	11
2000s	583	10 of 10	58
2010sbusiest	855	10 of 10	86
2020s	313	5 of 10	63

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 86 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2012 and 2013, when recorded births fell by 36, from 105 to 69.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Miya appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #281 in Northern Ireland in 2020.

Miya's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#666	58	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#694	52	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#676	55	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#496	85	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#609	63	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#545	74	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#536	78	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#576	74	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#433	102	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#441	99	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#508	83	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#593	69	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#435	105	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#499	85	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#476	86	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#428	97	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#464	87	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#559	65	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#580	59	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#583	56	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#542	58	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#637	45	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#564	52	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#657	39	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#876	25	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1216	16	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1259	15	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1958	8	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3126	4	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	female	#418	3	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	female	#281	5	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	female	#424	3	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	female	#361	4	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#432	3	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	female	#306	5	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	female	#370	4	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	female	#297	6	High	Verified
2011	Northern Ireland	female	#363	4	High	Verified
2010	Northern Ireland	female	#283	6	High	Verified
2009	Northern Ireland	female	#309	5	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	female	#311	5	High	Verified
2006	Northern Ireland	female	#294	5	High	Verified
2005	Northern Ireland	female	#318	4	High	Verified
2004	Northern Ireland	female	#372	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#483	7	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#441	8	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#555	6	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#634	5	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#586	6	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#834	3	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#502	7	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#629	5	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#471	8	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#419	10	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#660	5	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#404	11	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#660	5	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#612	6	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#612	6	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#510	8	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#641	5	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#597	6	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#549	6	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#764	3	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#587	4	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#576	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#790	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #281, first reached in 2020.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 105 births, registered in England and Wales in 2012.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2004, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Mj · #343, 10y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Rayna · #281, 30y
Rylie · #281, 26y
Wilson · #280, 29y
Dalton · #279, 31y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Anna-Rose · #281, 22y
Bradan · #281, 14y
Caoilte · #281, 9y
Daisie · #281, 29y

Miya was ranked #281 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2020. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Miya and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Miya without appearing here.

Miya moved ahead of

Dylan Compare
In 1997 they stood at #3126 and #2350 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1998 that had become #1259 and #3848.
Gail Compare
In 1997 they stood at #1958 and #1958 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1998 that had become #1259 and #3142.
Jeanette Compare
In 1996 they stood at #3126 and #1914 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #1958 and #3824.
Marilyn Compare
In 1997 they stood at #3126 and #2683 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1998 that had become #1259 and #2701.

Moved ahead of Miya

Evelyn Compare
In 2015 they stood at #370 and #440 in Northern Ireland · Girls; by 2016 that had become #306 and #129.
Ada Compare
In 2015 they stood at #370 and #440 in Northern Ireland · Girls; by 2016 that had become #306 and #137.
Olive Compare
In 2012 they stood at #612 and #768 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2013 that had become #660 and #491.
Harper Compare
In 2011 they stood at #499 and #858 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #435 and #284.

Moved the opposite way to Miya

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Miya went from #3126 to #666 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Miya went from #3126 to #666 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Miya went from #3126 to #666 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Miya went from #3126 to #666 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Miya

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Miya went from #3126 to #666 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Miya went from #3126 to #666 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Miya went from #3126 to #666 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Miya went from #3126 to #666 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #281 in Northern Ireland in 2020. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Miya

Miya at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Miya across 3 official records

Miya by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Miya appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Miya and the names beside it

Miya moved ahead of

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Miya at a glance

Miya across 3 official records

Miya by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Miya appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Miya

Miya and the names beside it

Miya moved ahead of

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