Mir

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Mir: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Mir: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #945, reached in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
35times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#945highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1998–2009

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1998	#2701
2000	#3912
2001	#1870
2004	#4598
2007	#5201
2009	#5556

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1337 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #945 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #945 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Mir appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 317 births with the name.

Mir across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Mir's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#1337 (1996)	#945 (2024)	#945 (2024)	29 of 29	317 (1996–2024)	33 (2024)
England and Wales · Girls	#2701 (1998)	#1870 (2001)	#5556 (2009)	6 of 12	26 (1998–2009)	9 (2001)

Mir by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Mir in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	31	4 of 10	8
2000s	75	10 of 10	8
2010s	111	10 of 10	11
2020sbusiest	100	5 of 10	20

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 20 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Mir appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #945 in England and Wales in 2024.

Mir's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#945	33	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1272	21	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1366	19	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1688	14	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1723	13	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1316	19	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#2445	8	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#2324	9	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#2027	11	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#3004	6	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1935	11	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2403	8	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1756	13	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1688	13	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1724	13	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#5556	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#2318	8	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1596	13	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#5201	3	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#2211	8	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2282	7	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1456	13	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#4598	3	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3651	3	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#2470	5	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1799	7	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1870	9	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1949	6	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3912	3	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#2142	5	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1850	6	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2701	5	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1263	10	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1761	6	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1337	9	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #945, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 33 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Miraal · #694, 9y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Om · #945, 25y
Yisroel · #944, 29y
Harman · #947, 29y
Iolo · #947, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Om · #945, 25y
Yisroel · #944, 29y
Harman · #947, 29y
Iolo · #947, 29y

Mir was ranked #945 in England and Wales · Boys in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Mir and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Mir without appearing here.

Mir moved ahead of

Garry Compare
In 2013 they stood at #2403 and #2216 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2014 that had become #1935 and #4632.
Shannon Compare
In 2005 they stood at #3651 and #2304 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #2282 and #4052.
Ashleigh Compare
In 2004 they stood at #2470 and #1962 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #1456 and #2754.
Brent Compare
In 2009 they stood at #2318 and #1981 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2010 that had become #1724 and #2941.

Moved ahead of Mir

Amalie Compare
In 2003 they stood at #1870 and #3998 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #4598 and #985.
Ada Compare
In 1999 they stood at #2701 and #3142 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2000 that had become #3912 and #1831.
Hunter Compare
In 2003 they stood at #2470 and #2857 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #3651 and #1878.
Hudson Compare
In 2002 they stood at #1799 and #2005 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2003 that had become #2470 and #1092.

Moved the opposite way to Mir

Espen Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Mir went from #1799 to #945 while Espen went from #3225 to #5119.

Moved the same way as Mir

Cooper Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Mir went from #1761 to #945 and Cooper from #2022 to #139.
Arlo Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Mir went from #1850 to #945 and Arlo from #2943 to #15.
Harper Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Mir went from #1850 to #945 and Harper from #2425 to #1402.
Kasper Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Mir went from #1850 to #945 and Kasper from #2425 to #529.

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #945 in England and Wales in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Mir

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Mir across 2 official records

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