Given name & surname · also Israeli
Mia
“who is like God?”
Mia is a feminine form of Michael. One Hebrew interpretation is “who is like God?.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Mia is a feminine form of Michael. One Hebrew interpretation is “who is like God?.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Latin.
How it developed
Mia is used as a feminine counterpart of Michael.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1933. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Mia through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 310,610
- 391 boys · 310,219 girls
- Most popular year
- 2015
- 14,960 babies
- 2025
- 11,087
- #6 for girls · #8,688 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −12%
- Easing
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 11,078 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 6 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 11.8% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for girls was 14,943 in 2015. It also appeared in 9 birth records for boys in 2025. In 2025, California had the largest reported state-level birth count for girls with this name (1,788). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 219,780 as a first name in 2020; 994 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Mia’s family of names
Mia is an affectionate form of Mary. Mia is a feminine form of Michael. In German usage, Mia has a related form in Maria.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Mia has relatives in 13 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
13 related names in 13 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 7
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 5
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 12
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Michaelmasculine form
- Myaequivalent
- Minaequivalent
- Niaequivalent
- Miomasculine form · Swedish
- Miiaborrowing · Finnish, Estonian
- Mieequivalent
- Mimmaequivalent
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See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Mia
- Mia Mottleyprime minister of Barbados since 2018born 1965
- Mia HammAmerican soccer playerborn 1972
- Mia WasikowskaAustralian actress (born 1989)
- Mia GothBritish actress (born 1993)
- Mata AmritanandamayiIndian spiritual leader and guruborn 1953
- Pernilla AugustSwedish actress and film directorborn 1958
- Mia KirshnerCanadian actress (born 1975)
- Mia SaraAmerican actressborn 1967
- Mia Hansen-LøveFrench film director, screenwriter, and actress (born 1981)
Characters named Mia: Speedy (DC Comics superheroine), Mia Fey (the Ace Attorney series), Mia Wallace (the movie Pulp Fiction), Mia Thermopolis (The Princess Diaries).
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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