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Miren

Girls' name

Possibly to be bitter, through מִרְיָם

Miren has been given to 50 babies in the U.S. since 1984. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2009, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Miren, 2020

1 in 668,000

Miren over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Miren: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly to be bitter, through מִרְיָם

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Miren means

Miren belongs to the name family reached through Miren → מִרְיָם. Its meaning is “to be bitter”.

Origin, language, and formation

Miren is used in Basque.

Miren comes through Hebrew מִרְיָם.

Miren is a modern formation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Mary and מִרְיָם.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Basque, Miren is pronounced /miɾen/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 50 girls were recorded with the name Miren between 1984 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2009; its best national rank was #9,923 in 1984.

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.

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How common is Miren?

Miren had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020
1 in 668,000
5 of 3,342,313 births
Among girls only
1 in 323,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2020
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,344 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Miren 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 2020 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 463,344 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Miren. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mirens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Miren was born before 2009 — so the typical Miren is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
46.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
78.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
50
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 46.0% of all recorded uses (23).

Is Miren 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2009 (10)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
66.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#9,923
1984

Spellings of Miren

Miren is not the most common spelling — Karen is, with 65.2% against Miren's <0.01%.

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.

Miren around the world

Where Miren 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
    1996–2016
    #4,763
    in 2016
  • Scotland
    2009–2011
    #579
    in 2011
  • France
    1937–2023
    #7,036
    in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Miren by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#9,923
1984
Peak year
2009
10 that year
First recorded
1984
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
50
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Miren

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

MirrenMirlaMiraeMiranMireiaMiranaMirariMirielAurenYarenMirayMircaMirsaMirlethAmrenMirasolMirelaMirelyMirraMiraalMireydaSyrenMirlMireli

Sibling names for Miren

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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