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Mira

#335 in 2025Girls' name

Admirable, through Miranda

Mira has been given to 15,101 babies in the U.S. since 1887. In 2025 it ranked #335 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 916 recorded.

Babies named Mira, 2025

1 in 3,620

Mira over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
02505007501K18801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mira: meaning, origin, and history

Admirable, through Miranda

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mira means

Mira belongs to the name family reached through Mira → Miranda. Its meaning is “admirable”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

* Borrowed from Hindi मीरा (mīrā), name of a 16th century Indian poetess, also affectionately called Mirabai. * As occasionally borne by anglophones in the West, the name may also be borrowed from Slavic, or be a short form of Miranda.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Mira (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Mira is used in English, Faroese, Finnish, German, Polish, Serbo-Croatian, Tagalog and Vilamovian.

Mira comes through Hindi मीरा.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Miranda, Mirabella, Mìrjana and Casimir.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Mira is pronounced /ˈmirɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 15,096 girls were recorded with the name Mira between 1887 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 916 in 2025; its best national rank was #335 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #485 in 2020 to #335 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #585 in 2015 to #335 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Mira between 1988 and 1988. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1988; its best national rank was #8,106 in 1988.

How common is Mira?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 3,620
916 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 1,750
0.06% of girls
Rank, 2025
#335
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
2,510 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mira sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 1003%
School of 50013%

Put another way: gather 2,510 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mira. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Miras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mira was born before 2015 — so the typical Mira is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
33.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
79.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
14,557
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 33.9% of all recorded uses (5,123).

Is Mira rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+45
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+150
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+250
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.77×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (916)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
8.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#335
2025

Spellings of Mira

Mira is not the most common spelling — Mary is, with 38.4% against Mira's 0.14%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Mira is used

Across 2016–2025, Mira was most concentrated in District of Columbia — about 1 in 418 girls, against 1 in 1,996 across all states with data. It was least common in Mississippi (1 in 20,000).

5239 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1District of Columbia1 in 418
  2. 2Oregon1 in 847
  3. 3Washington1 in 885
  4. 4Michigan1 in 917
  5. 5Minnesota1 in 1,064
  6. 6Massachusetts1 in 1,149
  7. 7Wisconsin1 in 1,408
  8. 8New Jersey1 in 1,493

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Geographically, Mira is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 85% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Mira around the world

Where Mira ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #323
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2010–2025
    #324
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2018–2023
    #302
    in 2023
  • Ireland
    2004–2025
    #226
    in 2025
  • France
    1926–2025
    #219
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #130
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #117
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1950–2013
    #233
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Mira

People whose public names include Mira, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Mira in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Mira. Linked forms have their own page here.

MyraElmiraMiira

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Mira by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#335
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 150
Best rank ever
#335
2025
Peak year
2025
916 that year
First recorded
1887
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
15,096
Count in 2025
916

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#8,106
1988
Peak year
1988
5 that year
First recorded
1988
Last recorded
1988
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Mira

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

MireyaMirnaKiraAmiraMiracleMoiraAkiraIraKeiraMiriMairaYadiraShiraMirianZairaSamiraElviraSairaKairaMirhaMiriamAiraViraMirella

Names with a curve like Mira

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Mira, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

MaryamEmmyPhoenixWinterEmeliaSelahLucianaDahliaHavenCharliShilohEvelynn

Sibling names for Mira

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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