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 0.000004069 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 0.000007982 33 100%
1959 51 0.000012269 51 100%
1960 52 0.000012518 52 100%
1961 48 0.000011589 48 100%
1962 85 0.000021067 85 100%
1963 104 0.000026274 104 100%
1964 298 0.000076655 298 100%
1965 1053 0.000290444 1053 100%
1966 721 0.000207448 721 100%
1967 738 0.000217386 738 100%
1968 681 0.000201577 681 100%
1969 460 0.000132361 460 100%
1970 488 0.000135311 488 100%
1971 480 0.000139849 480 100%
1972 415 0.000132039 415 100%
1973 350 0.000116015 350 100%
1974 390 0.000128289 390 100%
1975 366 0.000121217 366 100%
1976 354 0.000116666 354 100%
1977 443 0.000139466 443 100%
1978 531 0.000167306 523 8 97%
1979 608 0.000182749 603 5 98%
1980 687 0.000199449 682 5 99%
1981 719 0.000207843 719 100%
1982 547 0.000155932 547 100%
1983 470 0.00013571 470 100%
1984 452 0.000129563 452 100%
1985 500 0.000140096 500 100%
1986 491 0.00013804 491 100%
1987 549 0.000152268 544 5 98%
1988 620 0.000167801 620 100%
1989 676 0.000175843 660 16 95%
1990 782 0.000197862 782 100%
1991 779 0.000199995 779 100%
1992 822 0.000214002 822 100%
1993 800 0.000212194 794 6 99%
1994 861 0.000231608 861 100%
1995 1102 0.000300927 1102 100%
1996 1690 0.000463389 1690 100%
1997 2495 0.000688156 2495 100%
1998 2567 0.000697917 2567 100%
1999 2737 0.000740982 2737 100%
2000 3456 0.000914336 3451 5 100%
2001 3923 0.001048015 3918 5 100%
2002 6269 0.00167704 6259 10 100%
2003 7095 0.001866115 7083 12 100%
2004 7416 0.00194104 7399 17 100%
2005 10859 0.00282452 10844 15 100%
2006 12044 0.003044647 12026 18 100%
2007 10945 0.002738128 10921 24 100%
2008 10181 0.002590521 10171 10 100%
2009 11456 0.00299935 11437 19 100%
2010 10659 0.002884595 10648 11 100%
2011 11547 0.003157374 11540 7 100%
2012 12043 0.003293454 12033 10 100%
2013 13180 0.003616109 13164 16 100%
2014 13541 0.003654381 13528 13 100%
2015 14953 0.004041516 14936 17 100%
2016 14471 0.003945716 14456 15 100%
2017 13528 0.003784355 13512 16 100%
2018 12745 0.003626766 12732 13 100%
2019 12511 0.003606732 12495 16 100%
2020 11260 0.003373434 11250 10 100%
2021 11167 0.003299271 11157 10 100%
2022 11070 0.003276494 11061 9 100%
2023 11378 0.003450759 11359 19 100%