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Mirella

#3,368 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Mireille

Mirella has been given to 3,280 babies in the U.S. since 1951. In 2025 it ranked #3,368 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1997, with 163 recorded.

Babies named Mirella, 2025

1 in 72,100

Mirella over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mirella: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Mireille

Occitan and Spanish

What Mirella means

Mirella is a form of Mireille.

Origin, language, and formation

Mirella is used in Finnish and Italian. Its origins include Occitan and Spanish.

Mirella comes through oc-pro Mirèlha.

Mirella is a modern formation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Mireille.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Mirella is pronounced /ˈmirelːɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,280 girls were recorded with the name Mirella between 1951 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 163 in 1997; its best national rank was #1,144 in 1997.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,844 in 2020 to #3,368 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,561 in 2015 to #3,368 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 Mirella?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 72,100
46 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 34,900
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,368
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
49,955 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mirella 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 49,955 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mirella. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mirellas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mirella was born before 1997 — so the typical Mirella is around 28 today.

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
26.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
36.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,280
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 26.8% of all recorded uses (878).

Is Mirella 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
−554
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,476
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,193
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.48×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
28.2%
Peak was 1997 (163)
Years since peak
28
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,144
1997

Spellings of Mirella

Mirella is not the most common spelling — Marcella is, with 56.3% against Mirella's 2.8%.

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 Mirella is used

Across 1910–2025, Mirella was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 44,483 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 14,286
  2. 2Texas1 in 33,333
  3. 3Illinois1 in 50,000
  4. 4Arizona1 in 100,000
  5. 5New Mexico1 in 100,000
  6. 6New York1 in 100,000
  7. 7Washington1 in 100,000
  8. 8Colorado1 in —

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. Mirella has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Mirella around the world

Where Mirella 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
    #2,278
    in 2025
  • France
    1911–2025
    #2,522
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1999–2024
    #1,854
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1954–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, 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. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Mirella

People whose public names include Mirella, 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.

Mirella in other languages

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

MireiaMirelaMireille

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

Mirella by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,368
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,476
Best rank ever
#1,144
1997
Peak year
1997
163 that year
First recorded
1951
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,280
Count in 2025
46

Names similar to Mirella

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

MirabellaMirianMirabelKamillaArdellaAngellaMirnaJanellaDonellaMireyaMiracleLovellaNovellaMirayaGisellaNoellaMiryamMireilleDrusillaSabellaMirabelleJoellaMiriellaJamilla

Names with a curve like Mirella

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

SirenaDeonnaSarenaAideGiselaSerinaMeccaAnamariaKeturahKorinaTamiraTavia

Sibling names for Mirella

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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