Mir
Mir was given to 21 boys in 2025, #4,811 among boys’ names; 556 Americans have been recorded with it since 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mir by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Mir mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Mir is “a male given name.” Its etymology gives the sense “peace” (мир).
Borrowed from Russian мир (mir, “peace”).
/mɪɹ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Mir?
#4,811 among boys’ names, 2025
Mir rose from #5,443 in 2015 to #4,811 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 8.9 to 12.3 per million.
21 babies in 2025, the peak
Mir peaked in 2025, when 21 boys were given it, #4,811 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 19 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #4,811 | 12.3 |
| 2024 | 19 | #5,186 | 11.0 |
| 2023 | 12 | #7,153 | 7.0 |
| 2022 | 14 | #6,366 | 8.0 |
| 2021 | 18 | #5,267 | 10.3 |
| 2020 | 18 | #5,162 | 10.4 |
| 2019 | 10 | #8,011 | 5.6 |
| 2018 | 17 | #5,461 | 9.4 |
| 2017 | 20 | #4,872 | 10.8 |
| 2016 | 14 | #6,232 | 7.4 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 17 | #5,443 | 8.9 |
| 2014 | 17 | #5,401 | 8.9 |
| 2013 | 12 | #6,893 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 17 | #5,413 | 9.0 |
| 2011 | 17 | #5,352 | 9.0 |
| 2010 | 10 | #7,948 | 5.2 |
| 2009 | 10 | #8,100 | 5.0 |
| 2008 | 10 | #8,087 | 4.9 |
| 2007 | 10 | #7,985 | 4.8 |
| 2006 | 17 | #5,231 | 8.3 |
| 2005 | 12 | #6,490 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 19 | #4,535 | 9.6 |
| 2003 | 10 | #7,068 | 5.1 |
| 2002 | 14 | #5,302 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 16 | #4,820 | 8.2 |
| 2000 | 17 | #4,501 | 8.7 |
| 1999 | 14 | #4,931 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 12 | #5,358 | 6.3 |
| 1997 | 14 | #4,601 | 7.4 |
| 1996 | 12 | #5,080 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 12 | #5,006 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 11 | #5,327 | 5.7 |
| 1993 | 9 | #6,065 | 4.6 |
| 1992 | 10 | #5,516 | 5.0 |
| 1991 | 8 | #6,321 | 4.0 |
| 1989 | 10 | #5,054 | 5.0 |
| 1988 | 5 | #8,105 | 2.6 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,669 | 3.2 |
| 1985 | 6 | #6,256 | 3.2 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,988 | 2.8 |
| 1981 | 7 | #5,294 | 3.9 |
| 1980 | 6 | #5,990 | 3.4 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,817 | 3.5 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,450 | 3.0 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,615 | 3.2 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,498 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Mir a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mir has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 46 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mir: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mir, and how old are they?
An estimated 544 Americans named Mir and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 9 and 28. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,951 people named Mir (162 women and girls, 1,789 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 450 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.3 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,243 babies since 1880, Mir is the third most given (17% of them). In 2025 it was given to 21 of their 111 babies (19%), the fourth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Mir
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Mir and names like it
- Compare Mir and MihirBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMir peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mir since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Mir.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Mir alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.