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Mirjana

Girls' name

Possibly to be bitter, through מִרְיָם

Mirjana has been given to 112 babies in the U.S. since 1967. 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 1980, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Mirjana, 2003

1 in 760,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mirjana: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly to be bitter, through מִרְיָם

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mirjana means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Mirjana is used in Serbo-Croatian.

Mirjana comes through Hebrew מִרְיָם.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include מִרְיָם.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Serbo-Croatian, Mirjana is pronounced /mǐrjana/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 112 girls were recorded with the name Mirjana between 1967 and 2003. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1980; its best national rank was #6,544 in 1967.

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 Mirjana?

Mirjana had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2003, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2003
1 in 760,000
5 of 3,801,425 births
Among girls only
1 in 365,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2003
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
526,991 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mirjana 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 2003 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 526,991 children born in 2003 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mirjana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mirjanas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mirjana was born before 1980 — so the typical Mirjana is around 45 today.

Median birth year
1980
About 45 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
44.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
64.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
112
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 44.6% of all recorded uses (50).

Is Mirjana 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1980 (10)
Years since peak
45
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,544
1967

Spellings of Mirjana

Mirjana is not the most common spelling — Miranda is, with 61.9% against Mirjana's 0.06%.

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.

Mirjana around the world

Where Mirjana 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
    1965–2005
    #5,254
    in 2005
  • Canada
    1991–1991
    #2,397
    in 1991
  • South Australia
    1950–2013
    #818
    in 2013

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

Mirjana 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
#6,544
1967
Peak year
1980
10 that year
First recorded
1967
Last recorded
2003
All-time count
112
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Mirjana

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

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Sibling names for Mirjana

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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