Mia

surname · Bangla · Latin script

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

Mia is a surname, most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is the 22nd most common surname. It appears chiefly in Bangla and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Short form of Maria/Amelia; often from Hebrew Miryam via Maria.

rarermore common
  • BDBangladesh1 in 142◐
  • UZUzbekistan1 in 1.2K
  • KRSouth Korea1 in 1.4K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈4.6K ●

across 10 countries

#635 ●

of 21M surnames

5 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
466 ●

853K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 41K ◐

Spain

Spellings & scripts●

MiaLatin · English●1.9M records
미애Hangul · Korean●41K records
ЛолаCyrillic · Russian●34K records
ᲚოლაGeorgian · Georgian●2.9K records
ΜιαGreek · Greek●36 records

4 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Lola in US United States, EC Ecuador, NO Norway and 14 more, Лола in RU Russia, UZ Uzbekistan, KZ Kazakhstan and 2 more, Mía in AR Argentina, PE Peru and 미애 in KR South Korea.

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

Meaning & origin●

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.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Mia is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BD Bangladesh#221,839,5842 rec.——Mia4
KR South Korea—44,48823K rec.——미애59
RU Russia—42,17322K rec.—#734Лола120
AU Australia—21,34840K rec.—277Lola203
GB United Kingdom—18,49629K rec.—1.6KLola200
NL Netherlands—12,1843.1K rec.—2.4KLola71
UZ Uzbekistan—11,4841.9K rec.—listedЛола27
GE Georgia—9,6642.7K rec.—2.5KLola25
CA Canada—8,98112K rec.—95Lola174
KZ Kazakhstan—8,9762.9K rec.—932Лола34
NG Nigeria—8,4597.6K rec.——Lola70
DE Germany—6,02715K rec.—1Lola165

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

Languages●

  • Bangla2M49%
  • English1.9M46%
  • 90K2%
  • Hindi61K2%
  • Thai24K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Bangla1,971,66449%
English1,850,33846%
89,8772%
Hindi61,1272%
Thai24,3681%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Mia is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian given name139K records spelled Mia94 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Kazakhstan, Poland, Türkiye

    Languages: Russian, Kazakh, Polish

    Also written Мия, Miia, Миа, Mija, Мія

  • a separate surname117K records spelled Mia5 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Miá, Miå, Mìa, Mía

  • Finnish surname46K records spelled Mia6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, India, Italy, Sweden

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Mía, Mîa, Mįa, Miå

  • Indonesian surname39K records spelled Mia7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, India, Philippines

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Mia, Mía, Mïå, Mîä

70 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●

Mia 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 English, Initialism of missing in action.

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

  • In English, soldier listed as missing in action

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

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

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

  • 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.

Over time●

05K10K15K1940196019802000202015K · 2015

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Mia in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1933–2025
Yearrecords
19336
19405
19427
19438
19449
19458
194613
194714
194818
194923
195020
195128
195230
195331
195446
195542
195639
195740
195833
195951
196052
196148
196285
1963105
1964297
19651,053
1966721
1967738
1968681
1969460
1970488
1971481
1972414
1973350
1974388
1975366
1976354
1977443
1978523
1979604
1980683
1981719
1982547
1983470
1984452
1985500
1986491
1987544
1988620
1989661
1990782
1991780
1992822
1993795
1994861
19951,101
19961,690
19972,494
19982,567
19992,738
20003,451
20013,918
20026,259
20037,083
20047,399
200510,846
200612,027
200710,922
200810,173
200911,438
201010,650
201111,543
201212,039
201313,166
201413,534
201514,943
201614,464
201713,521
201812,742
201912,508
202011,269
202111,177
202211,077
202311,404
202412,149
202511,078

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 86 years between 1933–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19201940196019802000Rosa Mia, b. 1925Tommy Miah, b. 1959Asaduzzaman Mia, b. 1960Abjol Miah, b. 1971Maria Mia, b. 1980Hammad Miah, b. 1993

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●

Attested in 152 sources across 77 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
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)202426K#13
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—16K#405
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—14K#168
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)202614K#168
PE PeruRENIEC — DNI population names202212K#1
PE PeruRENIEC — Nombres y apellidos más frecuentes (frequency portal)202212K#1
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)202111K—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202511K—
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—11K#258

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 2026-09-12 data build · 1,400 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Mia?
We estimate roughly 4.6 thousand people bear Mia (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Mia have the most bearers?
Mia is most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is most often spelled mia.
How common is Mia compared with other names?
In Bangladesh, Mia is the 22nd most common surname of 11,292 surnames recorded there.
What does the name Mia mean?
Recorded meaning: Short form of Maria/Amelia; often from Hebrew Miryam via Maria
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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 22nd most common surname in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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