Myia
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 31 babies a year in the US.
Myia by the numbers
In 2025, 3 babies in England and Wales were named Myia. In the US, 31 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in the US than in England and Wales.
Its American peak was 123 babies in 1998, making it a 1990s name.
What we can tell you about Myia
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Myia. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Miamine; also a form of Maria13,453 in the US (2017)
- Myamine; a modern respelling of Mia or form of Maria1,728 in the US (2017)
- Maiathe great one, mother goddess255 in England and Wales (2025)
- Myramyrrh or fragrant oil612 in the US (2017)
- Mykawho is like God; a modern spelling of Micah85 in the US (2017)
- Miiabeloved; a Finnish form of Mia4 in England and Wales (2025)
Sounds like Myia
Names that are said the same way as Myia, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
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