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 0.000009518 40 100%
1958 33 0.000007985 33 100%
1959 51 0.000012269 51 100%
1960 52 0.000012517 52 100%
1961 48 0.000011592 48 100%
1962 85 0.000021065 85 100%
1963 104 0.000026272 104 100%
1964 298 0.000076653 298 100%
1965 1054 0.000290708 1054 100%
1966 721 0.000207444 721 100%
1967 738 0.000217378 738 100%
1968 682 0.000201861 682 100%
1969 461 0.000132637 461 100%
1970 488 0.000135299 488 100%
1971 480 0.000139841 480 100%
1972 415 0.000132026 415 100%
1973 350 0.000116005 350 100%
1974 390 0.000128281 390 100%
1975 367 0.000121534 367 100%
1976 354 0.000116653 354 100%
1977 443 0.000139453 443 100%
1978 531 0.000167287 523 8 97%
1979 608 0.00018273 603 5 98%
1980 687 0.000199429 682 5 99%
1981 719 0.000207828 719 100%
1982 547 0.000155921 547 100%
1983 471 0.000135992 471 100%
1984 452 0.00012956 452 100%
1985 500 0.000140095 500 100%
1986 491 0.00013804 491 100%
1987 549 0.00015227 544 5 98%
1988 620 0.000167805 620 100%
1989 676 0.000175845 660 16 95%
1990 783 0.000198122 783 100%
1991 779 0.000200001 779 100%
1992 822 0.000214009 822 100%
1993 800 0.000212203 794 6 99%
1994 861 0.000231616 861 100%
1995 1102 0.000300938 1102 100%
1996 1690 0.000463405 1690 100%
1997 2495 0.000688176 2495 100%
1998 2566 0.000697665 2566 100%
1999 2737 0.000741008 2737 100%
2000 3456 0.000914378 3451 5 100%
2001 3923 0.001048063 3918 5 100%
2002 6269 0.001677193 6259 10 100%
2003 7095 0.001866241 7083 12 100%
2004 7415 0.001940917 7398 17 100%
2005 10859 0.002824799 10844 15 100%
2006 12042 0.00304451 12024 18 100%
2007 10945 0.002738545 10921 24 100%
2008 10180 0.002590708 10170 10 100%
2009 11453 0.002999092 11434 19 100%
2010 10657 0.002884614 10646 11 100%
2011 11540 0.003156188 11533 7 100%
2012 12040 0.003293475 12030 10 100%
2013 13178 0.003616701 13162 16 100%
2014 13538 0.003654784 13525 13 100%
2015 14944 0.004040679 14927 17 100%
2016 14467 0.003946414 14452 15 100%
2017 13518 0.003783632 13502 16 100%
2018 12736 0.003626682 12723 13 100%
2019 12502 0.003607226 12486 16 100%
2020 11253 0.003375244 11243 10 100%
2021 11153 0.003299984 11143 10 100%
2022 11027 0.003279994 11018 9 100%