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Mirka

Girls' name

Possibly to be bitter, through Mirjam

Mirka has been given to 529 babies in the U.S. since 1992. 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 1995, with 52 recorded.

Babies named Mirka, 2015

1 in 617,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mirka: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly to be bitter, through Mirjam

Slavic languages

What Mirka means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Mirka is used in Finnish, Italian and Polish. Its origins include Slavic languages.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Mirjam, Mirko, Mirosława and מִרְיָם.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Mirka is pronounced /ˈmirkɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 529 girls were recorded with the name Mirka between 1992 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 52 in 1995; its best national rank was #2,469 in 1995.

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 Mirka?

Mirka had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2015
1 in 617,000
6 of 3,701,574 births
Among girls only
1 in 297,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2015
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
427,624 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mirka 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 2015 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 427,624 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mirka. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mirkas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mirka was born before 2001 — so the typical Mirka is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
57.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
529
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 57.5% of all recorded uses (304).

Is Mirka 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 1995 (52)
Years since peak
30
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
44.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,469
1995

Spellings of Mirka

Mirka is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 35.4% against Mirka's 0.03%.

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 Mirka is used

Across 1910–2025, Mirka was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 148,251 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 100,000
  4. 4New York1 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. Mirka has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Mirka around the world

Where Mirka 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
    1921–1937
    #1,157
    in 1937
  • Canada
    1992–2009
    #2,869
    in 2009
  • South Australia
    1957–1957
    #581
    in 1957

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.

Mirka 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
#2,469
1995
Peak year
1995
52 that year
First recorded
1992
Last recorded
2015
All-time count
529
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Mirka

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

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Sibling names for Mirka

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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