Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Mya” in the USA?

Number of people named “Mya” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Mya” 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 “Mya” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Mya” by birth year

This chart shows how “Mya” 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
1954 5 0.000001256 5 100%
1958 5 0.00000121 5 100%
1960 7 0.000001685 7 100%
1962 8 0.000001982 8 100%
1964 7 0.000001801 7 100%
1965 13 0.000003586 13 100%
1966 18 0.000005179 18 100%
1967 20 0.000005891 20 100%
1968 17 0.000005032 17 100%
1969 10 0.000002877 10 100%
1970 25 0.000006932 25 100%
1971 23 0.000006701 23 100%
1972 21 0.000006682 21 100%
1973 21 0.000006961 21 100%
1974 26 0.000008553 26 100%
1975 35 0.000011592 35 100%
1976 26 0.000008569 26 100%
1977 52 0.00001637 52 100%
1978 84 0.000026466 84 100%
1979 65 0.000019537 65 100%
1980 84 0.000024387 84 100%
1981 58 0.000016766 58 100%
1982 50 0.000014253 50 100%
1983 57 0.000016458 57 100%
1984 43 0.000012325 43 100%
1985 48 0.000013449 48 100%
1986 46 0.000012932 46 100%
1987 49 0.00001359 49 100%
1988 57 0.000015426 57 100%
1989 54 0.000014046 54 100%
1990 90 0.000022771 90 100%
1991 97 0.000024902 97 100%
1992 92 0.00002395 92 100%
1993 134 0.000035541 134 100%
1994 103 0.000027706 103 100%
1995 133 0.000036317 133 100%
1996 152 0.000041676 152 100%
1997 196 0.000054058 196 100%
1998 1284 0.000349083 1284 100%
1999 1885 0.000510305 1885 100%
2000 1844 0.000487843 1839 5 99%
2001 2189 0.000584764 2189 100%
2002 2288 0.000612044 2281 7 99%
2003 2957 0.000777683 2952 5 100%
2004 2908 0.000761073 2896 12 99%
2005 3208 0.000834364 3208 100%
2006 3361 0.000849555 3356 5 100%
2007 3332 0.000833483 3325 7 100%
2008 3339 0.000849475 3339 100%
2009 3415 0.000893938 3415 100%
2010 3005 0.000813099 2999 6 100%
2011 2869 0.000784353 2863 6 100%
2012 2552 0.00069777 2552 100%
2013 2711 0.000743622 2705 6 100%
2014 2409 0.000649961 2409 100%
2015 2208 0.00059661 2208 100%
2016 1920 0.000523346 1920 100%
2017 1750 0.000489347 1750 100%
2018 1563 0.000444552 1563 100%
2019 1402 0.000403926 1402 100%
2020 1241 0.000371493 1241 100%
2021 1157 0.000341505 1157 100%
2022 1060 0.000313319 1060 100%
2023 913 0.000275731 913 100%
2024 853 0.000256272 853 100%

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