Mira
Mira reached its high-water mark in 2025 at number 335, and has been recorded 15,101 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 335th. About 14,000 Miras are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 10.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Mira boys named Mira
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 15,101
- Estimated living today
- 14,000
- Median age today
- 10
- Peak year
- 2025
- Best rank
- 335th
- Rank in 2025
- 335th
- First recorded
- 1887
- Girls / boys
- 15,096 / 5
How old the living Miras are
born that year still alive today
Of the 15,101 babies given the name since 1887, about 14,000 are alive — 96 in every hundred. Roughly 10,000 of them are children and 430 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2015 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin India
Borrowed from Hindi मीरा, name of a 16th century Indian poetess, also affectionately called Mirabai.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Miras
- Mira Sorvino (born 1967)American actress
- Mira Furlan (1955–2021)Croatian actress and singer
- Mira Nair (born 1957)Indian-American filmmaker
- Mira Awad (born 1975)Arab-Israeli singer and actress of paternal Palestinian descent
- Mira Murati (born 1988)Albanian-American business executive
- Mira Marković (1942–2019)Serbian academic, journalist and politician
- Mira Potkonen (born 1980)Finnish boxer
- Mira Rai (born 1988)Nepalese trail runner and sky runner
People named Mira with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Mira is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Mira is most concentrated in Washington (2.9×), Oregon (2.7×), Minnesota (1.7×), the District of Columbia (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2025
The most popular girls’ names the year Mira peaked:
Mira elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sweden girls | Mira | 3,008 | 57th |
| France girls | Mira +1 spelling | 2,730 | 219th |
| Switzerland girls | Mira | 1,601 | 47th |
| Belgium girls | Mira | 1,589 | 82nd |
| England and Wales girls | Mira | 1,383 | 323rd |
| Norway girls | Mira | 1,188 | 108th |
| Poland girls | Mira +1 spelling | 839 birth registrations | 152nd |
| Austria girls | Mira | 599 | 49th |
| Italy girls | Mira | 543 | — |
| Ireland girls | Mira | 92 | 226th |
| Scotland girls | Mira | 71 | 275th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Mira | 12 | 302nd |
| France boys | Mira | 5 | 5,934th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Mira: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Mira | 1,471 | 0.118% | 40th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Mira | 116 | 0.027% | 103rd |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Mira | 13 | 0.020% | 84th |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Mira | 1 | 0.027% | 10th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Mira is most concentrated in Basel-Stadt, where 0.19% of children were given it – 72 of them.
Mira: rank by region
In 2025, Mira was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Mira | 80 | 67 |
| Wallonia | Mira | 105 | 24 |
| Brussels | Mira | 85 | 12 |
In 2025, Mira was given 2 times or more in 9 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolnośląskie | Mira | 234 | 2 |
| Łódzkie | Mira | 188 | 2 |
| Małopolskie | Mira | 135 | 9 |
| Mazowieckie | Mira | 121 | 20 |
| Opolskie | Mira | 123 | 2 |
| Podkarpackie | Mira | 110 | 6 |
| Pomorskie | Mira | 126 | 7 |
| Śląskie | Mira | 146 | 7 |
| Zachodniopomorskie | Mira | 175 | 2 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Mira appears in the lists for Province of Liège (55th), Province of West Flanders (59th), Province of East Flanders (68th), Province of Antwerp (75th), Brussels-Capital Region (85th), Province of Limburg (94th), Province of Flemish Brabant (108th) and Province of Hainaut (153rd).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Mira by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 867 | 12th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Mira among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Mira | 7,145 | 7,827 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Mira lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 323 women called Mira were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Huelva | Mira | 11 | 0.041 | 1,306 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Mira | 37 | 0.036 | 1,669 |
| Almería | Mira | 12 | 0.032 | 1,728 |
| Castellón/Castelló | Mira | 9 | 0.029 | 1,762 |
| Balears, Illes | Mira | 15 | 0.024 | 2,167 |
| Lleida | Mira | 5 | 0.022 | 2,103 |
Listed in 16 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 36 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Mira against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.