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Mia

A short form of Maria, Hebrew at root. Uncommon enough that meeting one still registers, yet it's climbing fast: Polish parents give it far more often now than a decade ago.

Mia Pronunciation

Mia is pronounced MYAH (/mja/).

Alive in 2025
12,843
Newborns 2025
1,013
National rank
#332

What Mia means

Where Mia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Mia comes to Poland as a short form of Maria, a name whose root reaches back into Hebrew. Maria itself grows from the Hebrew Miriam. The meaning people give it, beloved, in Polish ukochana, belongs first to Maria and her long line of bearers, and Mia inherits it by family resemblance.

A diminutive can outgrow the name that produced it. Mia has done that. It now appears on its own on birth records, while Maria stands quietly behind it as the source.

Open a class register in a Polish szkoła podstawowa and Mia sits among the other M names, three letters and nothing spare. The form is small. What it reports is old, a Hebrew root reached through Maria, and the meaning that came with it, ukochana, beloved.

How many people are named Mia

1 in 1756 women in Poland is named Mia. 12,843 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #332 among female names.

People with the name Mia 2019 → 2025
12,843 +8,537 since 2019
2020 5,037 +731
2021 6,413 +1,376
2022 7,899 +1,486
2023 9,600 +1,701
2024 11,251 +1,651
2025 12,843 +1,592

Mia's popularity over time

1,013 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #68 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2000.

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1,013 newborns with the name Mia in 2025
national rank #68 that year

Where parents choose Mia

Mia is most popular in West Pomeranian, 48% above the national average (455 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Lubusz (+46%) and Opole (+45%). It is least common in Podlaskie and Lublin, 44% and 39% below average respectively.

Chosen most
  • West Pomeranian
    +48%
    1 in 186 babies
  • Lubusz
    +46%
    1 in 188 babies
  • Opole
    +45%
    1 in 190 babies
Chosen least
  • Podlaskie
    −44%
    1 in 495 babies
  • Lublin
    −39%
    1 in 452 babies
  • Holy Cross
    −35%
    1 in 423 babies

Mia as a middle name

Mia is a first name for 12,843 women in Poland and a middle name for another 1,930, an 87/13 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 197th, between Zyta (1,934) and Hildegarda (1,906).

As a first name
12,843
As a middle name
1,930
first name 87% middle name 13%
Middle-name ranking women

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