Mirella
Mirella was given to 46 girls in 2025, #3,368 among girls’ names; 3,280 Americans have been recorded with it since 1951 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,180 Americans named Mirella and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 20 and 43.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mirella by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Mirella mean?
Wiktionary, Italian section
Mirella is “a female given name from Occitan, equivalent to English Mireille”
Borrowed from Provençal Mirèlha/Mirèio. Invented by the poet Frédéric Mistral for his poem of the same title (1859).
/miˈrɛl.la/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Italian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Mirella?
#3,368 among girls’ names, 2025
Mirella rose from #4,561 in 2015 to #3,368 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 17.4 to 28.6 per million.
163 babies in 1997, the peak
Mirella peaked in 1997, when 163 girls were given it, #1,144 among girls’ names. The 46 births of 2025 are 28% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 46 | #3,368 | 28.6 |
| 2024 | 60 | #2,814 | 37.0 |
| 2023 | 33 | #4,332 | 20.6 |
| 2022 | 29 | #4,752 | 17.7 |
| 2021 | 33 | #4,298 | 20.1 |
| 2020 | 27 | #4,844 | 16.7 |
| 2019 | 45 | #3,491 | 26.8 |
| 2018 | 28 | #4,850 | 16.5 |
| 2017 | 27 | #5,010 | 15.6 |
| 2016 | 31 | #4,600 | 17.5 |
Every recorded year (74)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 31 | #4,561 | 17.4 |
| 2014 | 43 | #3,636 | 24.1 |
| 2013 | 31 | #4,607 | 17.7 |
| 2012 | 35 | #4,264 | 19.9 |
| 2011 | 35 | #4,215 | 19.9 |
| 2010 | 47 | #3,454 | 26.4 |
| 2009 | 60 | #2,918 | 32.7 |
| 2008 | 60 | #2,943 | 31.7 |
| 2007 | 66 | #2,776 | 34.3 |
| 2006 | 68 | #2,662 | 35.8 |
| 2005 | 73 | #2,423 | 39.5 |
| 2004 | 82 | #2,186 | 44.7 |
| 2003 | 67 | #2,454 | 36.7 |
| 2002 | 58 | #2,659 | 32.3 |
| 2001 | 66 | #2,396 | 36.7 |
| 2000 | 77 | #2,116 | 42.4 |
| 1999 | 97 | #1,698 | 54.7 |
| 1998 | 131 | #1,344 | 74.1 |
| 1997 | 163 | #1,144 | 93.6 |
| 1996 | 97 | #1,604 | 55.3 |
| 1995 | 60 | #2,227 | 34.1 |
| 1994 | 64 | #2,133 | 35.8 |
| 1993 | 62 | #2,162 | 34.3 |
| 1992 | 86 | #1,733 | 46.6 |
| 1991 | 70 | #1,981 | 37.3 |
| 1990 | 48 | #2,503 | 25.3 |
| 1989 | 47 | #2,462 | 25.5 |
| 1988 | 50 | #2,261 | 28.1 |
| 1987 | 38 | #2,640 | 21.9 |
| 1986 | 44 | #2,326 | 25.6 |
| 1985 | 50 | #2,121 | 29.1 |
| 1984 | 43 | #2,281 | 25.5 |
| 1983 | 36 | #2,536 | 21.5 |
| 1982 | 49 | #2,099 | 28.9 |
| 1981 | 66 | #1,725 | 39.6 |
| 1980 | 58 | #1,878 | 34.9 |
| 1979 | 60 | #1,805 | 37.4 |
| 1978 | 71 | #1,555 | 46.3 |
| 1977 | 40 | #2,290 | 26.1 |
| 1976 | 47 | #1,927 | 32.1 |
| 1975 | 43 | #2,043 | 29.5 |
| 1974 | 37 | #2,202 | 25.2 |
| 1973 | 50 | #1,765 | 34.3 |
| 1972 | 44 | #1,911 | 28.9 |
| 1971 | 33 | #2,359 | 19.8 |
| 1970 | 30 | #2,495 | 17.2 |
| 1969 | 20 | #3,072 | 11.9 |
| 1968 | 22 | #2,765 | 13.4 |
| 1967 | 26 | #2,412 | 15.7 |
| 1966 | 15 | #3,356 | 8.9 |
| 1965 | 16 | #3,219 | 9.1 |
| 1964 | 11 | #4,268 | 5.8 |
| 1963 | 16 | #3,282 | 8.3 |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,448 | 5.1 |
| 1961 | 16 | #3,282 | 7.9 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,527 | 3.5 |
| 1959 | 6 | #6,018 | 3.0 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,245 | 3.5 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,227 | 3.4 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,750 | 3.0 |
| 1955 | 7 | #5,046 | 3.6 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,343 | 2.6 |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,142 | 2.7 |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,238 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mirella a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mirella has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 74 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mirella: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mirella, and how old are they?
3,180 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 3,280 Americans ever recorded as Mirella. The median Mirella alive today is 29 years old; half are between 20 and 43.
The 2020 Census counted 4,864 people named Mirella (4,855 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,987 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 90 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 573 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 886 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,170 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 461 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Mirella born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 7 | #2,684 | 2.7× |
Where Mirella is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Mirella is most over-represented in California: since 1951 it was given 2.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Mirella with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 5,332 babies since 1880, Mirella is the most given (62% of them). In 2025 it was given to 46 of their 133 babies (35%), again the most given.
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 Mirella
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 Mirella and names like it
- Compare Mirella and MireilleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMirella peaked in 1997.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mirella since 1910.
- The top names of 1997The year the most babies were named Mirella.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Mirella alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.