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Mirian

#8,697 in 2025Girls' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Mirian has been given to 3,391 babies in the U.S. since 1911. In 2025 it ranked #8,697 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2003, with 100 recorded.

Babies named Mirian, 2025

1 in 276,000

Mirian over time, 1880–2025

Girls
025507510018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mirian: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mirian means

Mirian has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Mirian

A separate documented entry treats Mirian as a variant of Miriam. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

A separate documented entry treats Mirian as a form of Mehran. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

Origin, language, and formation

Mirian is used in Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Miriam.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,391 girls were recorded with the name Mirian between 1911 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 100 in 2003; its best national rank was #1,763 in 1923.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,827 in 2020 to #8,697 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #8,783 in 2015 to #8,697 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 Mirian?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 134,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#8,697
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mirian 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 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mirian. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mirians were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mirian was born before 1992 — so the typical Mirian is around 33 today.

Median birth year
1992
About 33 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
23.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
31.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,990
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 23.8% of all recorded uses (808).

Is Mirian 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
−3,298
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,870
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+86
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
0.92×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
12.0%
Peak was 2003 (100)
Years since peak
22
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,763
1923

Spellings of Mirian

Mirian is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 31.7% against Mirian's 0.19%.

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 Mirian is used

Across 1910–2025, Mirian was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 50,634 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 16,667
  2. 2New York1 in 50,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 50,000
  4. 4Georgia1 in 100,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in 100,000
  6. 6New Jersey1 in 100,000
  7. 7Florida1 in —
  8. 8North Carolina1 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. Mirian has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Mirian around the world

Where Mirian 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
    2009–2009
    #5,556
    in 2009
  • South Australia
    1952–1967
    #650
    in 1967

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Mirian

People whose public names include Mirian, 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.

Mirian by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,697
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,870
Best rank ever
#1,763
1923
Peak year
2003
100 that year
First recorded
1911
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,391
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Mirian

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

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Names with a curve like Mirian

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

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Sibling names for Mirian

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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