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Mitra

#11,601 in 2025Girls' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Mitra has been given to 595 babies in the U.S. since 1961. In 2025 it ranked #11,601 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1988, with 20 recorded.

Babies named Mitra, 2025

1 in 414,000

Mitra over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mitra: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mitra means

Mitra has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Mitra

One of the source’s documented entries for Mitra records a meaning of friend.

A separate documented entry treats Mitra as a variant of Mithra. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 590 girls were recorded with the name Mitra between 1961 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 20 in 1988; its best national rank was #3,605 in 1971.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,776 in 2020 to #11,601 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #11,557 in 2015 to #11,601 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Mitra between 2003 and 2003. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2003; its best national rank was #12,124 in 2003.

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 Mitra?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 201,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#11,601
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mitra 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mitra. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mitras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mitra was born before 1992 — so the typical Mitra is around 33 today.

Median birth year
1992
About 33 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
22.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
40.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
590
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 22.0% of all recorded uses (130).

Is Mitra 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
−1,582
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,825
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−44
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.89×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
40.0%
Peak was 1988 (20)
Years since peak
37
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,605
1971

Spellings of Mitra

Mitra is not the most common spelling — Mia is, with 24.7% against Mitra's 0.05%.

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 Mitra is used

Across 1910–2025, Mitra was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 457,508 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Mitra has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Mitra around the world

Where Mitra 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
    2003–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024
  • France
    2016–2016
    #6,832
    in 2016
  • Canada
    1999–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Mitra by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#11,601
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,825
Best rank ever
#3,605
1971
Peak year
1988
20 that year
First recorded
1961
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
590
Count in 2025
8

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#12,124
2003
Peak year
2003
5 that year
First recorded
2003
Last recorded
2003
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Mitra

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

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Sibling names for Mitra

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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