Mia

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in English: Initialism of missing in action

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/miːə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Mia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina≈1 in 1.5K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 1.5K
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 6.3K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Mia itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

219,780 people, 2020

4 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
525 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 534 (inferred from the name graph)

Ecuador

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MiaLatin(measured from records)
미애Hangul(measured from records)
მიაGeorgian(measured from records)
ΜιαGreek(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Mía in EC Ecuador, AR Argentina and 미애 in KR South Korea.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Short form of Maria/Amelia; often from Hebrew Miryam via Maria

Sources 1

  • Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

How Mia is read(measured from records)

Mia is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • English43%

    Initialism of missing in action.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

    soldier listed as missing in action

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • Spanish28%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Mia in Spanish.

  • French7.5%

    Short form of Maria/Amelia; often from Hebrew Miryam via Maria

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

    Variante d’Aimée, d’origine latine, signifie « aimée ».

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Mia counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Mia is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#890219,7801 in 1.5K219KMia525
KR South Korea#233≈37,000 est.≈1 in 1.4K—미애62
EC Ecuador—31,6611 in 53432KMía22
AR Argentina#946≈31,000 est.≈1 in 1.5K4.6KMía23
PH Philippines—≈17,000 est.≈1 in 6.3K—Mia127
DK Denmark—10,4541 in 56110K—4
NO Norway—8,4641 in 64628KMia70
FI Finland#7358,1791 in 6819.2KMia60
SI Slovenia—3,2901 in 6393.5K—18

219,780 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INEC — civil registry names; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Mia is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian given name86 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Croatia, Kazakhstan, Türkiye

    Languages: Russian, Croatian, Uzbek

    Also written Мия, Миа, Mija, Miya, Miia

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Mía, Mìa, Miá, Miå

  • Danish given name24 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, Denmark, United States, Norway

    Languages: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian

    Also written Miaa, Mía, Miā, Miã, Mià

  • Finnish given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Sweden, United States, Philippines

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Mįa, Miå, Mía, Mîa

  • Indonesian given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Mia, Mïå, Mía, Mîä

71 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Mia is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, weibl. Vom., wohl Kurzform von Namen, die auf »-iHa« enden, auch italienisch.

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • In German, weibl. Vom., Kurzform von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1940196019802000Pernilla August, b. 1958Andrea Ghez, b. 1965Mia Mottley, b. 1965Mia Hamm, b. 1972Mia Kirshner, b. 1975Mia Hansen-Løve, b. 1981Mia Wasikowska, b. 1989Mia Khalifa, b. 1993Mia Goth, b. 1993Mia Threapleton, b. 2000

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalHi Mia,

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 154 sources across 78 countries.

Official registers attesting Mia
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020219K#254
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202432K#56
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—28K#156
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202511K—
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—10K#70
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—9.2K#228
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20258.5K—
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—8.2K—
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present)20244.6K#22
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—3.5K#159
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20253.3K#84
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)20242.9K—

Reference works 5

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Is Mia a male or female name?
Mia is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Mia have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 220 thousand people named Mia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mia.
Where is Mia most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mia is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 534 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
Where does the name Mia come from?
Short form of Maria/Amelia; often from Hebrew Miryam via Maria Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
What are other forms of the name Mia?
In the etymology graph, Maria, Mary and Marie are forms of the same name in other languages.
How common is the name Mia?
In the United States, the national register counted 219,780 people named Mia in 2020, about 1 in 1.5 thousand residents.
How common is Mia compared with other names?
In the United States, Mia is the 890th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
How do you pronounce Mia?
A machine transcription gives /miːə/ (IPA) for English.
What does the name Mia mean?
In English, Initialism of missing in action.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Mia” — the 890th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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