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How popular is the name Mia?

Births per year, rank history and how many Mias are alive today.

Mia (female) is currently the 14th most popular girls' name in England and Wales, with 1,609 babies given the name in 2024. This spelling of the name peaked in 2012, when 3,524 babies were given the name, the 7th most popular that year. It was almost as popular in 2003, with 3,132 babies given the name that year. It has declined since 2012; the 2024 figure is roughly 46% of its peak. Numbers have been falling in recent years. At least 67,000 babies have been named Mia in England and Wales since 1996. Mia is one spelling of a name also recorded as Miya; the combined figures below cover every spelling.

Across all spellings of the name, the Mia you are most likely to meet is around 15 years old. Half of all Mias born in England and Wales are between 10 and 21, and there are at least 71,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly a 20% chance that at least one of them will be called Mia.

How many babies are named Mia each year?

Includes all spellings: Mia, Miya. Figures before 1996 are estimates.

Where does the Mia spelling rank?

Where does the Miya spelling rank?

Where this data comes from

Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.

One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.