girl's name
Mira
MEE-rah
- Origin Latin
- Gender Girl
- Syllables 2
- Letters 4
- Popularity Top 1000 (US)
- Births on record 21,935
the United States
#335
2025 births
Mira is a girl's name that arrives from at least four unrelated directions — Latin for wonderful, Slavic for peace, Sanskrit through the poet Mirabai, and the name of a variable star. Sources pick one; the honest answer is that all four are in current use.
- Mira is a name of Latin origin.
- Peaked in 2025, when 916 babies were given the name.
- It has been rising over the past decade.
- Today about 1 in 3,619 babies in the United States is given this name.
- First appears in US birth records in 1887.
- 2 syllables, with the stress on syllable 1.
Mira over time
Births per decade in the United States, 1880s to 2020s. The striped bar is the 2020s, still in progress — it covers 2020 to 2025, not a full ten years.
Show the numbers
| Decade | Births |
|---|---|
| 1880s | 16 |
| 1890s | 39 |
| 1900s | 19 |
| 1910s | 92 |
| 1920s | 100 |
| 1930s | 104 |
| 1940s | 169 |
| 1950s | 341 |
| 1960s | 338 |
| 1970s | 386 |
| 1980s | 444 |
| 1990s | 902 |
| 2000s | 2,595 |
| 2010s | 5,123 |
| 2020s (to 2025) | 4,433 |
What Mira means
Mira means wonderful through the Latin mirus, peace or world through the Slavic mir, and prosperous or a devotee through the Sanskrit Meera. The four lines are genuinely separate and each is correct for different families.
Where Mira comes from
Mira collects several origins in one short spelling. The Latin mirus, wonderful, gives mirror, miracle and admire, and named the star Mira in the constellation Cetus — the first variable star discovered, called wonderful in 1662 because it disappeared and returned. The Slavic mir means both peace and world, and ends names like Vladimir and Miroslav. The Sanskrit Meera belongs to Mirabai, the sixteenth-century Rajput poet and devotee of Krishna whose songs are still sung. And in Arabic and Albanian use it stands independently. None derives from the others.
Mira in use
Mira charts in six of the seven countries we track and reached its highest recorded use in 2025.
How popular is Mira?
In 2025, Mira was given to 916 babies in the United States, ranking #335 that year. It is a well-established, commonly used name.
Where Mira is used
US figures omit any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so the rarest names are absent from the source rather than absent from use. Data & sources.
How Mira is spelled
Birth registers count each spelling separately, so every one has its own ranking.
| Spelling | What it is | Births on record |
|---|---|---|
| Mïra | Mïra is a rare spelling of Mira, written with a diaeresis and recorded about 5 times, mostly in France. | 5 |
Names that peaked alongside Mira
These names rose and fell in the same era, which is why they tend to sound like they belong together.
Parents who like Mira also like
Names whose popularity has risen and fallen in step with Mira over the last century — the same taste, a different name.
Mira in other languages
The same name as it is spelled elsewhere — not shortenings, and not different names that merely sound alike. Each one has its own record here.
Sibling names for Mira
Names from the same era that won't rhyme or share an initial with Mira — the two things that make a sibling set grate.
Common questions about Mira
What does the name Mira mean?
It depends on the tradition: wonderful in Latin, peace or world in Slavic, and a separate Sanskrit name through the poet Mirabai.
Is Mira the same as Meera?
They are used interchangeably in English but come from different places — Meera is the Sanskrit name, Mira the Latin and Slavic one.
Is Mira a star?
Yes. Mira in Cetus was the first variable star discovered, named wonderful in 1662 because it faded from view and returned.
How popular is the name Mira?
In 2025, Mira was given to 916 babies in the United States, ranking #335 that year. It is a well-established, commonly used name.
Is Mira a girl's or a boy's name?
Mira is given almost entirely to girls in birth records.
How many syllables are in Mira?
Mira has 2 syllables.
When was Mira most popular?
Mira peaked in 2025, when 916 babies were given the name. It has been rising over the past decade.
Is Mira a good name?
That is not something records can settle, but they can tell you what you would be choosing. Mira currently ranks #117 in the United States. It has been rising over the past decade. Everything else — how it sounds with your surname, who it reminds you of — is yours.