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Mithra

#9,889 in 2025Girls' name

Oath, covenant, agreement

Mithra has been given to 321 babies in the U.S. since 2009. In 2025 it ranked #9,889 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 43 recorded.

Babies named Mithra, 2025

1 in 332,000

Mithra over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mithra: meaning, origin, and history

Oath, covenant, agreement

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mithra means

Mithra means “oath, covenant, agreement”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 316 girls were recorded with the name Mithra between 2009 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 43 in 2017; its best national rank was #3,605 in 2017.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,845 in 2020 to #9,889 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,392 in 2015 to #9,889 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Mithra between 2017 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2017; its best national rank was #13,605 in 2017.

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.

How common is Mithra?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 161,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#9,889
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mithra 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mithra. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mithras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mithra was born before 2017 — so the typical Mithra is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
64.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
316
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 64.9% of all recorded uses (205).

Is Mithra 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
−1,608
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−5,044
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,497
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.50×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
23.3%
Peak was 2017 (43)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,605
2017

Spellings of Mithra

Mithra is not the most common spelling — Mira is, with 56.5% against Mithra's 1.2%.

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 Mithra is used

Across 1910–2025, Mithra was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 554,778 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 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. Mithra has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Mithra around the world

Where Mithra 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
    2008–2025
    #3,333
    in 2025
  • France
    2016–2025
    #3,321
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2014–2024
    #1,968
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2012–2012
    #871
    in 2012

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.

Mithra by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,889
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 5,044
Best rank ever
#3,605
2017
Peak year
2017
43 that year
First recorded
2009
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
316
Count in 2025
10

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#13,605
2017
Peak year
2017
5 that year
First recorded
2017
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Mithra

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

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Sibling names for Mithra

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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