Baby name
FADING
🇬🇧 🇺🇸 Mya
/MY · ah/
Meaning
“Great or water”
Variant spelling of Mia or Maya; the simplified spelling emerged in the US in the 1990s, though Maya itself traces to Latin, Sanskrit, and Hebrew roots meaning 'great' or 'water'.
Nicknames
none
Vibe
warmplayful
How it ages.
Peaked in the 2000s; the variant spelling feels tied to that era and may date it.
The cultural moment.
Ranked in the US top 100 in the early 2000s; declining but still in use in the UK and US.