Mirah
Mirah was given to 14 girls in 2025, #7,765 among girls’ names; 562 Americans have been recorded with it since 1920 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mirah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mirah?
#7,765 among girls’ names, 2025
Mirah fell from #5,606 in 2015 to #7,765 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 13.4 to 8.7 per million.
25 babies in 2024, the peak
Mirah peaked in 2024, when 25 girls were given it, #5,247 among girls’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 56% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,765 | 8.7 |
| 2024 | 25 | #5,247 | 15.4 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,583 | 11.2 |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,388 | 11.6 |
| 2021 | 20 | #6,094 | 12.2 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,826 | 10.5 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,339 | 11.3 |
| 2018 | 23 | #5,568 | 13.5 |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,150 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,740 | 13.0 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 24 | #5,606 | 13.4 |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,923 | 12.3 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,638 | 9.1 |
| 2012 | 24 | #5,663 | 13.6 |
| 2011 | 22 | #6,075 | 12.5 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,778 | 9.0 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,748 | 7.6 |
| 2008 | 16 | #7,991 | 8.5 |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,636 | 8.8 |
| 2006 | 13 | #9,107 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,262 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,702 | 8.2 |
| 2003 | 8 | #12,028 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,256 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 13 | #8,042 | 7.2 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,963 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,257 | 5.6 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,378 | 6.2 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,150 | 6.3 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,214 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,367 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,863 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,246 | 5.0 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,911 | 7.1 |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,573 | 9.1 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,370 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,450 | 3.8 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,702 | 4.2 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,515 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mirah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mirah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 39 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mirah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mirah, and how old are they?
An estimated 551 Americans named Mirah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 8 and 25. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 548 people named Mirah (541 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 444 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% above 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).
How common is the spelling Mirah?
Mirah is a less common spelling of Myra: SSA has recorded 562 Mirah and 63,967 Myra since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 86,206 babies since 1880, Mirah is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 1,578 babies (<1%), the sixth 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 Mirah
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 Mirah and names like it
- Compare Mirah and MyraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMirah peaked in 2024.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Mirah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Mirah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.