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Miri

#3,328 in 2025Girls' name

Diminutive of Miriam

Miri has been given to 871 babies in the U.S. since 1962. In 2025 it ranked #3,328 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 50 recorded.

Babies named Miri, 2025

1 in 70,500

Miri over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Miri: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Miriam

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Miri means

Miri is a diminutive of Miriam.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Miri → Miriam. The family’s proposed meaning is “bitter”, recorded in English with the source elements Maryām.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Miriam.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 871 girls were recorded with the name Miri between 1962 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 50 in 2022; its best national rank was #3,258 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,271 in 2020 to #3,328 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,681 in 2015 to #3,328 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.

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How common is Miri?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 70,500
47 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 34,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,328
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
48,893 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Miri 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 48,893 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Miri. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Miris were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Miri was born before 2013 — so the typical Miri is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
36.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
79.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
871
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 36.4% of all recorded uses (317).

Is Miri 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
+295
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,943
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,353
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.57×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
94.0%
Peak was 2022 (50)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,258
2022

Spellings of Miri

Miri is not the most common spelling — Mary is, with 59.2% against Miri'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.

Where Miri is used

Across 1910–2025, Miri was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 79,223 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 33,333
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 100,000
  3. 3California1 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. Miri has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Miri around the world

Where Miri 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
    #1,512
    in 2025
  • France
    2024–2024
    #6,563
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2009–2024
    #2,710
    in 2024

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

Miri by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,328
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,943
Best rank ever
#3,258
2022
Peak year
2022
50 that year
First recorded
1962
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
871
Count in 2025
47

Names similar to Miri

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

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Sibling names for Miri

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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