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
Grammatical form

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

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.