Meeya

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Meeya is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country, where it is the 10th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • BDBangladesh≈1 in 160as Miah(inferred from the name graph)
  • SGSingapore≈1 in 2.8Kas Miah
  • PKPakistan≈1 in 3.7Kas Mian

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 Meeya 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.

Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,000,000 named Miah, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
274 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 160 (inferred from the name graph)

Bangladesh, est., as Miah

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MiyaLatin(measured from records)
มายาThai(measured from records)

8 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Miah in BD Bangladesh, GB United Kingdom, SG Singapore, Mian in US United States, PK Pakistan, Miya in IN India and Mia in ES Spain.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Meeya 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 Meeya is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BD Bangladesh#10≈1,000,000 est.≈1 in 160listedMiah141
PK Pakistan#451≈62,000 est.≈1 in 3.7K—Mian140
IN India#25439,402as Miya1 in 34K39KMiya70
US United States—35,228as Mayo1 in 9.4K219KMian274
GB United Kingdom#378≈12,000 est.≈1 in 5.6K1.6KMiah210
ES Spain—9,159as Maya1 in 5.5K16KMia39
SG Singapore#163≈2,200 est.≈1 in 2.8K—Miah27

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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; ONS — Baby names England and Wales (2024); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)

Meeya is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Arabic surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, India

    Also written Mëeyä

  • Korean given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in South Korea, India, United States, South Africa

    Also written 미야, Miya, Mi-Ya

22 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 6 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Meeya
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—5#27,490
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—4#163,601

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

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Meeya have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.0 million people named Miah in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Meeya?
In India, the national register counted 39,402 people named Miya, about 1 in 34 thousand residents.
How common is Meeya compared with other names?
In Bangladesh, Meeya is the 10th most common surname of 12,312 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Meeya” — the 10th most common surname in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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