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Mira vs Mireia

American parents have registered 15,101 Miras since 1880, against 49 Mireias. Mira is still ahead, with 916 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Mira Mireia

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 2021, when Mira had 652 and Mireia had 12.

Side by side

  Mira Mireia
Total US births 15,10149
Most in one year 91612
Babies in 2025 9166
Estimated living today 14,00050
Median age today 107
Peak year 20252021
Best rank 335th girls8,464th girls
Rank in 2025 335th13,208th
First recorded 18872005
Girls / boys 15,096 / 549 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Miras alive today are over 10; half the Mireias are over 7. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

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

Country Mira Mireia
England and Wales 1,3838

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 Mireia.