The name Mya is a variation of Maya. It can either come from the Greek ‘mai’, meaning ‘great,’ or the Hebrew ‘ma’ayan’, meaning ‘spring.’
Mya is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
The name Mya isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Mya ranks 160. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 11 were named Mya. In the entire USA, approximately 58,133 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Mya. That is 0.02 % of all living Americans.
The name Mya is a variation of Maya. It can either come from the Greek ‘mai’, meaning ‘great,’ or the Hebrew ‘ma’ayan’, meaning ‘spring.’
Did you know... that in Buddism, the name Mya is a reference to Queen Māyā, who was the mother of Buddha?
The name Mya may not be in the top rankings of the most popular girls’ names, but it is one of the few female given names, along with only 536 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Mya is apparently especially popular in Nevada. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular women’s names here either, one in 893 women in Nevada is called Mya. In total, that’s 500 women who feel addressed when the name Mya is shouted loudly across Nevada and who ensure that their name makes it to #242 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common female names in this nice state. If you asked all women in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Mya as the answer a total of 58,133 times. This places Mya at #470 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular women’s names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living women across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Mya as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a quite popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 8.5% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A and S are more common for girls' names.
With only three letters, the name Mya is obviously very short. In fact, only 1.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly three letters. Just 0.2% of all first names are even shorter and only have two letters, while nearly 99% of all boys’ and girls’ names use more than three letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 8.5% of all girls' names start with an M, this initial letter occurs nearly 2.5-times as often as all 26 letters on average – and the most common one of all the girls’ names starting with M is Mary.
If your name is Mya and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Mya, you can simply say:
Mouse
Yoyo
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Mya
Mya
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
M
Y
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
M
Y
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Mya sounds like this:
