Thirty years of Mia
Mia in numbers
Mia peaked in 2012 with 3,524 girls and has fallen since, to 1,372 in 2025. Its biggest three-year rise came between 2000 and 2003, from 1,149 to 3,132. It ranked 116th in 1996, reached 5th in 2019 and ranks 21st now. On average it was given to 670 girls a year in the late 1990s, 2,624 in the 2000s, 2,868 in the 2010s and 1,827 in the 2020s so far.
† Shapes, averages and turning points are Baby Data calculations from the ONS counts.
Milestones
First year in each bandChange
- On last year-15%1,609 to 1,372
- 5 years-40%2,303 to 1,372
- 10 years-52%2,842 to 1,372
- 20 years-46%2,539 to 1,372
- Since 1996×3397 to 1,372
- Total, 1996 to 202568,567girls
† All changes and totals are Baby Data calculations from ONS counts. A total adds only the published years.
Across the three nations, 2025
Each from its own statistics office, never added togetherRank 21 · ONS · 1,609 in 2024
Rank 34 · NRS · 126 in 2024
Rank 28 · NISRA · 61 in 2024
England and Wales (ONS) count births in the calendar year; Scotland (NRS) and Northern Ireland (NISRA) count births registered in the year. Each comes from its own statistics office and they are never added together.
Year by year, 1996 to 2025 Show all 30 yearsHide the table
| Year | Rank | Babies | Change† | 1 in X† |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | 1,372 | -15% | 1 in 207 |
| 2024 | 14 | 1,609 | -2% | 1 in 180 |
| 2023 | 16 | 1,640 | -12% | 1 in 176 |
| 2022 | 10 | 1,868 | -14% | 1 in 158 |
| 2021 | 9 | 2,168 | -6% | 1 in 141 |
| 2020 | 5 | 2,303 | -8% | 1 in 130 |
| 2019 | 5 | 2,500 | +0% | 1 in 125 |
| 2018 | 6 | 2,490 | -4% | 1 in 128 |
| 2017 | 7 | 2,590 | -3% | 1 in 128 |
| 2016 | 10 | 2,662 | -6% | 1 in 127 |
| 2015 | 9 | 2,842 | +4% | 1 in 120 |
| 2014 | 13 | 2,727 | -9% | 1 in 124 |
| 2013 * | 10 | 2,993 | -15% | 1 in 114 |
| 2012 | 7 | 3,524 | +5% | 1 in 101 |
| 2011 | 13 | 3,346 | +11% | 1 in 105 |
| 2010 | 13 | 3,009 | +6% | 1 in 117 |
| 2009 | 11 | 2,836 | -9% | 1 in 121 |
| 2008 | 11 | 3,121 | +5% | 1 in 111 |
| 2007 | 13 | 2,970 | -0% | 1 in 113 |
| 2006 | 14 | 2,975 | +17% | 1 in 110 |
| 2005 | 18 | 2,539 | -16% | 1 in 124 |
| 2004 | 15 | 3,017 | -4% | 1 in 103 |
| 2003 | 15 | 3,132 | +28% | 1 in 97 |
| 2002 | 20 | 2,446 | +19% | 1 in 119 |
| 2001 | 25 | 2,058 | +79% | 1 in 141 |
| 2000 | 43 | 1,149 | +17% | 1 in 257 |
| 1999 | 54 | 980 | +36% | 1 in 309 |
| 1998 | 75 | 721 | +24% | n/a |
| 1997 | 89 | 583 | +47% | 1 in 538 |
| 1996 | =116 | 397 | 1 in 796 |
* ONS’s girls’ 2013 file repeats the May total as April, so the 2013 births total is about 1,360 too high and 1 in X for 2013 is slightly too high. 1 in X is not shown for girls in 1998: one monthly total is missing from the ONS girls’ 1998 file. Rank follows ONS: names with the same count share a rank (shown with =). “Under 3” means the name was given to fewer than 3 babies that year, so ONS did not publish it.
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Source: Office for National Statistics, Baby names in England and Wales, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0; National Records of Scotland; NISRA. Exact spellings are counted separately and names given to fewer than 3 babies are not published. Figures marked † are Baby Data calculations. How we calculate
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