Mya

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

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

• French given name63K records spelled Mya14 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States, Mexico, Spain

  Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written M'Ya, Myá, Myä, Mÿa, Mŷå

• a separate given name2.3K records spelled Mya2 spellings in the group

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

  Also written Myạ

• Indonesian given name1.9K records spelled Mya3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, United States, Singapore

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written Mÿá

59 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●

Mya 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.

• Esmeralda

  as a name·25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

• In Japanese, The hiragana syllable みゃ (mya) or the katakana syllable ミャ (mya) in Hepburn romanization.

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

• In Welsh, abbreviation of milltir yn awr

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

• In Latin, a kind of mussel

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

• In kac, emerald

  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.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 66 years between 1954–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Mýab. 1979USAmerican singer
• Mya Bollaersb. 1996BEBelgian actress
• Mya Breitbartb. 2000USAmerican biologist
• Mya Jonesb. 2001CACanadian soccer player
• Mya Harnishb. 2001CACanadian soccer player
• Mya Lesnarb. 2002American athlete
• Mya Batesb. 2005GBBritish association football player
• Mya de Freitasb. 2005VCvincentian swimmer
• Mya BakerUSAmerican film director
• Mya Michaelsactress

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 529 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Mya?

We estimate roughly 65 thousand people bear Mya (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.

In which country does Mya have the most bearers?

We estimate about 51 thousand people bear Mya in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled mya.

Where is Mya most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mya is densest in France — about 1 in 5.0 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.

How common is Mya compared with other names?

In Canada, Mya is the 769th most common given name of 175,432 given names recorded there.

Is Mya a male or female name?

Mya 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.

What does the name Mya mean?

Recorded meaning: Initialism of million years ago.