Name Trends

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How popular is “Mia” in the USA?

Number of people named “Mia” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Mia” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Mia” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Mia” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Mia” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Mia” by birth year

This chart shows how “Mia” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1933 6 0.000003001 6 100%
1940 5 0.000002171 5 100%
1942 7 0.000002562 7 100%
1943 8 0.000002834 8 100%
1944 9 0.000003346 9 100%
1945 8 0.000003016 8 100%
1946 13 0.000004068 13 100%
1947 14 0.000003886 14 100%
1948 18 0.000005214 18 100%
1949 23 0.0000066 23 100%
1950 20 0.000005709 20 100%
1951 28 0.000007601 28 100%
1952 30 0.000007899 30 100%
1953 31 0.000008044 31 100%
1954 46 0.000011556 46 100%
1955 42 0.000010461 42 100%
1956 39 0.000009459 39 100%
1957 40 0.000009519 40 100%
1958 33 0.000007983 33 100%
1959 51 0.000012266 51 100%
1960 52 0.000012519 52 100%
1961 48 0.000011588 48 100%
1962 85 0.000021064 85 100%
1963 104 0.000026275 104 100%
1964 298 0.000076654 298 100%
1965 1053 0.000290447 1053 100%
1966 721 0.000207443 721 100%
1967 738 0.000217385 738 100%
1968 681 0.000201574 681 100%
1969 460 0.000132362 460 100%
1970 488 0.000135311 488 100%
1971 480 0.000139846 480 100%
1972 415 0.00013204 415 100%
1973 350 0.000116014 350 100%
1974 390 0.00012829 390 100%
1975 366 0.000121216 366 100%
1976 354 0.000116666 354 100%
1977 443 0.000139462 443 100%
1978 531 0.000167304 523 8 97%
1979 608 0.000182747 603 5 98%
1980 687 0.000199448 682 5 99%
1981 719 0.000207841 719 100%
1982 547 0.000155931 547 100%
1983 470 0.000135707 470 100%
1984 452 0.000129559 452 100%
1985 500 0.000140091 500 100%
1986 491 0.000138035 491 100%
1987 549 0.000152263 544 5 98%
1988 620 0.000167792 620 100%
1989 676 0.000175838 660 16 95%
1990 782 0.000197851 782 100%
1991 780 0.000200243 780 100%
1992 822 0.000213992 822 100%
1993 800 0.000212186 794 6 99%
1994 861 0.000231598 861 100%
1995 1101 0.000300643 1101 100%
1996 1690 0.00046337 1690 100%
1997 2494 0.000687858 2494 100%
1998 2567 0.000697894 2567 100%
1999 2737 0.000740958 2737 100%
2000 3456 0.000914309 3451 5 100%
2001 3923 0.001047981 3918 5 100%
2002 6269 0.001676969 6259 10 100%
2003 7095 0.001865966 7083 12 100%
2004 7416 0.001940892 7399 17 100%
2005 10860 0.002824561 10845 15 100%
2006 12045 0.003044597 12027 18 100%
2007 10945 0.002737836 10921 24 100%
2008 10183 0.002590656 10173 10 100%
2009 11456 0.002998815 11437 19 100%
2010 10660 0.002884403 10649 11 100%
2011 11549 0.003157369 11542 7 100%
2012 12047 0.0032939 12037 10 100%
2013 13182 0.003615799 13166 16 100%
2014 13546 0.003654783 13533 13 100%
2015 14956 0.004041166 14939 17 100%
2016 14477 0.003946086 14462 15 100%
2017 13535 0.003784749 13519 16 100%
2018 12751 0.00362667 12738 13 100%
2019 12519 0.003606811 12503 16 100%
2020 11274 0.003374866 11264 10 100%
2021 11177 0.003299046 11167 10 100%
2022 11077 0.003274182 11068 9 100%
2023 11414 0.003447093 11395 19 100%
2024 12131 0.003644584 12113 18 100%