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Mira vs Mirabella

American parents have registered 15,101 Miras since 1880, against 1,320 Mirabellas. Mira is still ahead, with 916 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Mira against Mirabella, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Mira Mirabella

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Mira has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1887 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2006, when Mira had 286 and Mirabella had 50.

Side by side

  Mira Mirabella
Total US births 15,1011,320
Most in one year 91680
Babies in 2025 91666
Estimated living today 14,0001,300
Median age today 1010
Peak year 20252017
Best rank 335th girls2,302nd girls
Rank in 2025 335th2,607th
First recorded 18871991
Girls / boys 15,096 / 51,320 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Mira Mirabella
France 2,73515
Switzerland 1,60113
England and Wales 1,38380
Poland 83923

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Mira and Mirabella.