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Miriana

Girls' name

Variant of Miriam

Miriana has been given to 134 babies in the U.S. since 1996. 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 2013, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Miriana, 2024

1 in 557,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Miriana: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Miriam

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Miriana means

Miriana is a variant of Miriam.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Miriana is used in Italian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /mi.ˈrja.na/ for Miriana.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Miriana → 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, 134 girls were recorded with the name Miriana between 1996 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2013; its best national rank was #10,025 in 2013.

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 Miriana?

Miriana had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 270,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,177 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Miriana 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 2024 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 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Miriana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mirianas were born

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

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
41.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
96.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
134
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 41.0% of all recorded uses (55).

Is Miriana 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2013 (11)
Years since peak
12
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#10,025
2013

Spellings of Miriana

Miriana is not the most common spelling — Marian is, with 14.5% against Miriana'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.

Miriana around the world

Where Miriana 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.

  • France
    1966–2022
    #7,211
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1956–1997
    #681
    in 1997

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Miriana 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
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Best rank ever
#10,025
2013
Peak year
2013
11 that year
First recorded
1996
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
134
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Miriana

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

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Sibling names for Miriana

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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