The name Mya, which also can be derived from multiple souces, has been used as a spelling variant of Mia as well as of Maya and Maia.

The name Mia first appeared among the 1,000 most popular names for newborn girls in the United States in 1964, the year American actress Mia Farrow debuted as smart, pretty teenaged Allison MacKenzie on the American television soap opera Peyton Place.

The name increased again in popularity in the mid- to late 1970s after the release of the 1975 hit song Mamma Mia.

The name has been similarly popular in the 2010s and 2020s elsewhere in the Anglosphere, including in Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.

It is also a popular name throughout Europe, ranking on popularity charts in Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Moldova, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, and Switzerland.