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Mirko

#8,689 in 2025Boys' name

Peace, world

Mirko has been given to 183 babies in the U.S. since 1916. In 2025 it ranked #8,689 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Mirko, 2025

1 in 368,000

Mirko over time, 1880–2025

Boys
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mirko: meaning, origin, and history

Peace, world

Slavic languages

What Mirko means

Mirko means “peace, world”.

Origin, language, and formation

Mirko is used in Italian and Serbo-Croatian. Its origins include Slavic languages.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Mirka.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Mirko is pronounced /ˈmir.ko/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 183 boys were recorded with the name Mirko between 1916 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 16 in 2014; its best national rank was #2,861 in 1916.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #10,255 in 2015 to #8,689 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 Mirko?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 190,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,689
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mirko sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mirko. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mirkos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mirko was born before 2006 — so the typical Mirko is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
30.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
60.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
163
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 30.1% of all recorded uses (55).

Is Mirko 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
+1,566
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.29×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
56.3%
Peak was 2014 (16)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,861
1916

Spellings of Mirko

Mirko is not the most common spelling — Mark is, with 69.5% against Mirko'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.

Mirko around the world

Where Mirko 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
    2007–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • France
    1931–2025
    #1,873
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2002–2024
    #2,550
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1957–2005
    #643
    in 2005

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Mirko by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,689
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#2,861
1916
Peak year
2014
16 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
183
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Mirko

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

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Sibling names for Mirko

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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