Mira

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Mira: Recorded since 1966, it reached #92 in 2021, and it stood at #132 in 2025.

5registrars recorded it
94times a registrar ranked it
60years from first to last
#92highest recorded position
17groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1434
1997	#2411
1998	#2407
1999	#1557
2000	#1831
2001	#1728
2002	#2301
2003	#1472
2004	#2278
2005	#2247
2006	#1585
2007	#1741
2008	#1447
2009	#1467
2010	#1257
2011	#1327
2012	#1184
2013	#882
2014	#570
2015	#708
2016	#630
2017	#514
2018	#472
2019	#432
2020	#486
2021	#496
2022	#433
2023	#381
2024	#337

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

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in 50 of the 60 years from 1966 to 2025.

In 2025: #132 among girls in Norway, #226 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 5 national registrars across 5 regions, 1966–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1966
First recorded at #535 among girls in Norway in 1966 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1966–2025
Highest recorded position: #92 among girls in Norway, in 2021 (recorded 1966–2025).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #132 among girls in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Girls

Mira appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 50 years beginning in 1966, and has registered 1,188 births with the name.

Mira across 4 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.

Mira'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
Norway · Girls	#535 (1966)	#92 (2021)	#132 (2025)	50 of 60	1,188 (1966–2025)	62 (2007)
England and Wales · Girls	#1434 (1996)	#337 (2024)	#337 (2024)	29 of 29	1,248 (1996–2024)	128 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#576 (2004)	#226 (2025)	#226 (2025)	11 of 22	92 (2004–2025)	19 (2025)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#434 (2018)	#302 (2023)	#302 (2023)	3 of 6	12 (2018–2023)	5 (2023)

Mira by decade in Norway · Girls

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 Mira in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1960s	4	1 of 10	4
1970s	16	3 of 10	5
1980s	89	10 of 10	9
1990s	118	10 of 10	12
2000s	330	10 of 10	33
2010s	352	10 of 10	35
2020sbusiest	279	6 of 10	47

Across Norway · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 6 years of it this list covers, averaging 47 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Mira appears in

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

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 5 regions, from 1966 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #92 in Norway in 2021.

Mira'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	female	#337	128	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#381	109	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#433	98	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#496	85	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#486	83	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#432	97	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#472	91	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#514	83	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#630	67	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#708	56	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#570	74	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#882	42	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1184	28	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1327	23	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1257	25	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1467	19	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1447	19	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1741	14	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1585	15	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2247	9	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2278	8	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1472	14	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2301	7	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1728	10	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1831	9	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1557	11	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2407	6	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2411	6	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1434	12	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#302	5	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#350	4	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	female	#434	3	High	Verified
2025	Norway	female	#132	42	High	Verified
2024	Norway	female	#117	46	High	Verified
2023	Norway	female	#141	37	High	Verified
2022	Norway	female	#107	50	High	Verified
2021	Norway	female	#92	58	High	Verified
2020	Norway	female	#115	46	High	Verified
2019	Norway	female	#138	39	High	Verified
2018	Norway	female	#154	36	High	Verified
2017	Norway	female	#139	43	High	Verified
2016	Norway	female	#159	37	High	Verified
2015	Norway	female	#130	48	High	Verified
2014	Norway	female	#167	37	High	Verified
2013	Norway	female	#205	28	High	Verified
2012	Norway	female	#206	28	High	Verified
2011	Norway	female	#233	24	High	Verified
2010	Norway	female	#191	32	High	Verified
2009	Norway	female	#145	48	High	Verified
2008	Norway	female	#153	43	High	Verified
2007	Norway	female	#108	62	High	Verified
2006	Norway	female	#126	52	High	Verified
2005	Norway	female	#200	28	High	Verified
2004	Norway	female	#224	23	High	Verified
2003	Norway	female	#225	23	High	Verified
2002	Norway	female	#210	24	High	Verified
2001	Norway	female	#232	21	High	Verified
2000	Norway	female	#519	6	High	Verified
1999	Norway	female	#296	14	High	Verified
1998	Norway	female	#380	10	High	Verified
1997	Norway	female	#290	14	High	Verified
1996	Norway	female	#299	14	High	Verified
1995	Norway	female	#422	9	High	Verified
1994	Norway	female	#392	10	High	Verified
1993	Norway	female	#426	9	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#357	12	High	Verified
1991	Norway	female	#342	13	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#352	13	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#462	9	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#459	9	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#378	12	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#483	8	High	Verified
1985	Norway	female	#535	7	High	Verified
1984	Norway	female	#348	13	High	Verified
1983	Norway	female	#490	7	High	Verified
1982	Norway	female	#351	12	High	Verified
1981	Norway	female	#447	8	High	Verified
1980	Norway	female	#642	4	High	Verified
1976	Norway	female	#433	8	High	Verified
1973	Norway	female	#600	4	High	Verified
1972	Norway	female	#616	4	High	Verified
1966	Norway	female	#535	4	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#226	19	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#441	8	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#339	11	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#389	10	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#363	11	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#716	4	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#512	7	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#579	6	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#661	5	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#532	7	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#576	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#275	13	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 5 registrars between 1966 and 2025, ranked in 50 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #92, first reached in 2021.

It held a top-100 place in 1 year.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 128 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 5 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 58 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

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.

Mio · #64, 22y
Mir · #945, 29y
Miraal · #694, 9y
Mirabel · #620, 24y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 5 registrars, 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.

Ted · #90, 55y
Felicity · #88, 51y
Karla · #88, 53y
Alistair · #87, 51y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Cathy · #92, 54y
Leigh · #92, 55y
Leonora · #92, 48y
Aishling · #93, 48y

Mira was ranked #92 in Norway · Girls in 2021. 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.

Mira 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 Mira without appearing here.

Mira moved ahead of

Lene Compare
In 2000 they stood at #1831 and #1831 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #1728 and #3998.
Brittany Compare
In 2005 they stood at #2247 and #1500 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #1585 and #3548.
Pauline Compare
In 2005 they stood at #2247 and #1796 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #1585 and #3548.
Kristin Compare
In 2007 they stood at #1741 and #1741 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #1447 and #2721.

Moved ahead of Mira

Ada Compare
In 2003 they stood at #1472 and #1628 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #2278 and #1617.
Mila Compare
In 1999 they stood at #1557 and #2189 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2000 that had become #1831 and #1313.
Olive Compare
In 1999 they stood at #1557 and #2444 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2000 that had become #1831 and #1313.
Leah Compare
In 1999 they stood at #296 and #351 in Norway · Girls; by 2000 that had become #519 and #207.

Moved the opposite way to Mira

Åse Compare
Between 1966 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Mira went from #535 to #132 while Åse went from #51 to #93.
Aud Compare
Between 1966 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Mira went from #535 to #132 while Aud went from #68 to #427.
Bjørg Compare
Between 1966 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Mira went from #535 to #132 while Bjørg went from #62 to #369.
Camilla Compare
Between 1966 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Mira went from #535 to #132 while Camilla went from #165 to #279.

Moved the same way as Mira

Alexandra Compare
Between 1966 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Mira went from #535 to #132 and Alexandra from #387 to #212.
Andrea Compare
Between 1966 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Mira went from #535 to #132 and Andrea from #216 to #98.
Anna Compare
Between 1966 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Mira went from #535 to #132 and Anna from #82 to #23.
Elise Compare
Between 1966 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Mira went from #535 to #132 and Elise from #184 to #63.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

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.

Official popularity data is available for 5 regions, from 1966 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #92 in Norway in 2021. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Mira

Mira at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Mira across 4 official records

Mira by decade in Norway · Girls

Mira appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1960s

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Mira and the names beside it

Mira moved ahead of

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Mira at a glance

Mira across 4 official records

Mira by decade in Norway · Girls

Mira appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Mira

Mira and the names beside it

Mira moved ahead of

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