Mía

Spellings & scripts●(measured from records)

Locally spelled Mia in US United States, NO Norway, PH Philippines and 1 more 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)

Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.

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

Mía is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Danish given name24 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Sweden, Denmark, United States, Norway

  Languages: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian

  Also written Mia, Miaa, Miā, Miã, Mià

• a separate given name23 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, India, Norway, United Kingdom

  Also written Mia, Miã, Mïà, Ṃîã, Mîâ

• Russian given name86 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, Croatia, Kazakhstan, Türkiye

  Languages: Russian, Croatian, Uzbek

  Also written Мия, Mia, Миа, Mija, Miya

18 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)

Mía is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In jpx-pro, 1 woman 2 female

  as a word·StarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)

• In Icelandic, indefinite genitive plural of mí

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Asturian, feminine singular of míu

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Galician, inflection of miar:

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Vietnamese, sugar cane

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

• Mía Maestrob. 1978ARArgentine actress and singer
• Mía Taverasb. 1986DOMiss Dominican Republic Universe 2006
• Mía Shalitb. 2002PEPeruvian association football player
• Mia Asenjob. 2003USDominican Republic association football player (born 2003)

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).

Evidence●(measured from records)

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

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Mía mean, and where does it come from?

a regiment of 100 soldiers in the Spanish protectorate of Morocco Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).

In which country does Mía have the most bearers?

In the United States, the national register counted about 220 thousand people named Mía, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mia.

Where is Mía most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mía is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 534 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.

How common is the name Mía?

In the United States, the national register counted 219,780 people named Mía in 2020, about 1 in 1.5 thousand residents.

How common is Mía compared with other names?

In the United States, Mía is the 890th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.

Is Mía a male or female name?

Mía 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.