Mireya
Mireya was given to 202 girls in 2025, #1,147 among girls’ names; 9,939 Americans have been recorded with it since 1951 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,750 Americans named Mireya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 13 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mireya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mireya?
#1,147 among girls’ names, 2025
Mireya rose from #1,484 in 2015 to #1,147 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.09 to 0.13 per 1,000.
567 babies in 1997, the peak
Mireya peaked in 1997, when 567 girls were given it, #448 among girls’ names. The 202 births of 2025 are 36% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 202 | #1,147 | 0.13 |
| 2024 | 233 | #1,069 | 0.14 |
| 2023 | 196 | #1,215 | 0.12 |
| 2022 | 165 | #1,392 | 0.10 |
| 2021 | 171 | #1,319 | 0.10 |
| 2020 | 188 | #1,222 | 0.12 |
| 2019 | 198 | #1,190 | 0.12 |
| 2018 | 218 | #1,125 | 0.13 |
| 2017 | 211 | #1,171 | 0.12 |
| 2016 | 186 | #1,292 | 0.10 |
Every recorded year (74)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 155 | #1,484 | 0.09 |
| 2014 | 157 | #1,453 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 178 | #1,320 | 0.10 |
| 2012 | 155 | #1,467 | 0.09 |
| 2011 | 173 | #1,343 | 0.10 |
| 2010 | 197 | #1,227 | 0.11 |
| 2009 | 265 | #1,004 | 0.14 |
| 2008 | 281 | #959 | 0.15 |
| 2007 | 250 | #1,051 | 0.13 |
| 2006 | 263 | #991 | 0.14 |
| 2005 | 273 | #912 | 0.15 |
| 2004 | 255 | #947 | 0.14 |
| 2003 | 275 | #881 | 0.15 |
| 2002 | 267 | #862 | 0.15 |
| 2001 | 262 | #877 | 0.15 |
| 2000 | 245 | #896 | 0.13 |
| 1999 | 331 | #684 | 0.19 |
| 1998 | 438 | #561 | 0.25 |
| 1997 | 567 | #448 | 0.33 |
| 1996 | 283 | #747 | 0.16 |
| 1995 | 150 | #1,158 | 0.09 |
| 1994 | 166 | #1,085 | 0.09 |
| 1993 | 162 | #1,110 | 0.09 |
| 1992 | 176 | #1,046 | 0.10 |
| 1991 | 133 | #1,263 | 0.07 |
| 1990 | 102 | #1,516 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 108 | #1,393 | 0.06 |
| 1988 | 68 | #1,830 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 95 | #1,407 | 0.05 |
| 1986 | 73 | #1,633 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 75 | #1,599 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 69 | #1,611 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 76 | #1,505 | 0.05 |
| 1982 | 83 | #1,454 | 0.05 |
| 1981 | 88 | #1,401 | 0.05 |
| 1980 | 107 | #1,234 | 0.06 |
| 1979 | 103 | #1,248 | 0.06 |
| 1978 | 82 | #1,415 | 0.05 |
| 1977 | 90 | #1,300 | 0.06 |
| 1976 | 80 | #1,347 | 0.05 |
| 1975 | 80 | #1,346 | 0.05 |
| 1974 | 67 | #1,480 | 0.05 |
| 1973 | 84 | #1,248 | 0.06 |
| 1972 | 75 | #1,346 | 0.05 |
| 1971 | 52 | #1,745 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 45 | #1,926 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 30 | #2,383 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 19 | #3,026 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 24 | #2,534 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 13 | #3,684 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 17 | #3,121 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,830 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 10 | #4,448 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,449 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,784 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 11 | #4,088 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 12 | #3,757 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,888 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,449 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,369 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,439 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 10 | #3,884 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,143 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,239 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mireya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mireya 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 Mireya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mireya, and how old are they?
9,750 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 9,939 Americans ever recorded as Mireya. The median Mireya alive today is 24 years old; half are between 13 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 15,364 people named Mireya (15,336 women and girls, 28 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,691 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 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 | 909 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,860 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,450 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,440 |
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 Mireya born?
The states with the most babies named Mireya are California, Texas and Arizona, with 67% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Arizona is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 48 | #655 | 2.3× |
| Texas | 31 | #941 | 2.4× |
| Arizona | 14 | #507 | 2.4× |
| Illinois | 10 | #904 | 1.3× |
| Florida | 10 | #1,401 | 0.5× |
| New York | 10 | #1,388 | 0.2× |
| Nevada | 6 | #487 | 0.3× |
| Colorado | 5 | #1,010 | 1.4× |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,355 | 0.1× |
Where Mireya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Mireya is most over-represented in New Mexico: since 1951 it was given 3.1 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 Mireya 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 27,790 babies since 1880, Mireya is the second most given (36% of them). In 2025 it was given to 202 of their 1,318 babies (15%), again the second 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 Mireya
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 Mireya and names like it
- Compare Mireya and MiraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMireya peaked in 1997.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mireya since 1910.
- The top names of 1997The year the most babies were named Mireya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Mireya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.