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Mirela

#12,757 in 2025Girls' name

English equivalent of Mireille

Mirela has been given to 169 babies in the U.S. since 1998. In 2025 it ranked #12,757 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2001, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Mirela, 2025

1 in 474,000

Mirela over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mirela: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Mireille

Italian and Occitan

What Mirela means

Mirela is a English equivalent of Mireille.

Origin, language, and formation

Mirela is used in Serbo-Croatian. Its origins include Italian and Occitan.

Mirela comes through Italian Mirella and oc-pro Mirèlha.

Mirela is a modern formation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Mireille.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Serbo-Croatian, Mirela is pronounced /mirěla/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 169 girls were recorded with the name Mirela between 1998 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2001; its best national rank was #8,556 in 2001.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #11,795 in 2020 to #12,757 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #15,796 in 2015 to #12,757 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Mirela?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#12,757
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mirela 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 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mirela. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mirelas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mirela was born before 2011 — so the typical Mirela is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
33.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
86.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
169
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 33.7% of all recorded uses (57).

Is Mirela 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
+4,150
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−962
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,039
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.17×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
58.3%
Peak was 2001 (12)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,556
2001

Spellings of Mirela

Mirela is not the most common spelling — Mila is, with 32.2% against Mirela's 0.06%.

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.

Mirela around the world

Where Mirela 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
    1999–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2020–2024
    #631
    in 2024
  • France
    1940–2025
    #5,874
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1997–2018
    #2,940
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    2008–2008
    #796
    in 2008

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

Mirela by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#12,757
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 962
Best rank ever
#8,556
2001
Peak year
2001
12 that year
First recorded
1998
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
169
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Mirela

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

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Sibling names for Mirela

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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