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Girl's name · #444 in the US (2025) · 2000s wave
Mya reached #97 in 2009 and has eased to #444 since. In a single year its births jumped from about 200 in 1997 to 1,300 in 1998 — the year the R&B singer Mya debuted.
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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 45 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
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#69 in France (2025) · #174 in N. Ireland (2025) · #188 in Belgium (2025) · #207 in Scotland (2025) · #230 in England & Wales (2025) · #258 in Ireland (2025) · #501 in Switzerland (2025) · #1,444 in Ecuador (2025) · #191 in Canada (2024).
Among 102 notable people named Mya:
Sports figures appear 2.63× more often than among typical names — e.g. Mya Jones, Canadian soccer player.
A popular twin pairing with Mya is Mia for a girl.
Together with its spelling variants Maya (#62) and Maia (#433), Mya would rank around #39 with about 5,100 births last year — the newborns split about 72/14/14 across Maya, Maia, and Mya.
Similar names: Myah · Alondra · Micah · Nia · Esmeralda · Amya
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