Entry № 7068 · Burmese origin

Mya Mya — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MIE-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Burmese
Meaning
"Emerald"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Ancient (Burmese)

A name that means "emerald".

Mya carries the green fire of the emerald: in Burmese, mya means exactly that precious stone. In the English-speaking world it also reads as a fresh, streamlined spelling of Maya or Mia, and was carried to fame by the American singer Mýa.

Emerald — a jewel-bright modern name.

The name in its native script.

မြ
Transliteration
Mya
Pronunciation
/ ˈmaɪ.ə /
Root
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Grammatical form
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Where Mya stands.

Mya does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Myas before her.

Real people
Mya Harrison
American singer.
born 1979
In fiction

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Names connected to Mya.

The number behind Mya.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Mya reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.