Miri
Miri was given to 47 girls in 2025, #3,328 among girls’ names; 871 Americans have been recorded with it since 1962 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Miri by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Miri?
#3,328 among girls’ names, 2025
Miri rose from #4,681 in 2015 to #3,328 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 16.8 to 29.2 per million.
50 babies in 2022, the peak
Miri peaked in 2022, when 50 girls were given it, #3,258 among girls’ names. The 47 births of 2025 are 94% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 47 | #3,328 | 29.2 |
| 2024 | 43 | #3,623 | 26.5 |
| 2023 | 44 | #3,560 | 27.4 |
| 2022 | 50 | #3,258 | 30.5 |
| 2021 | 34 | #4,211 | 20.7 |
| 2020 | 24 | #5,271 | 14.8 |
| 2019 | 26 | #5,125 | 15.5 |
| 2018 | 31 | #4,528 | 18.2 |
| 2017 | 31 | #4,551 | 18.0 |
| 2016 | 37 | #4,060 | 20.9 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 30 | #4,681 | 16.8 |
| 2014 | 29 | #4,859 | 16.2 |
| 2013 | 35 | #4,219 | 19.9 |
| 2012 | 37 | #4,093 | 21.0 |
| 2011 | 31 | #4,646 | 17.6 |
| 2010 | 30 | #4,823 | 16.9 |
| 2009 | 37 | #4,164 | 20.1 |
| 2008 | 28 | #5,233 | 14.8 |
| 2007 | 16 | #7,974 | 8.3 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,627 | 3.7 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,914 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,378 | 4.4 |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,514 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,826 | 4.5 |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,157 | 6.1 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,653 | 5.5 |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,236 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,974 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,341 | 5.0 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,485 | 5.5 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,127 | 4.3 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,542 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,371 | 3.2 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,764 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,226 | 4.7 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,942 | 4.1 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,924 | 3.6 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,798 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,269 | 5.3 |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,183 | 6.6 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,307 | 3.9 |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,099 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,843 | 4.1 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,903 | 5.5 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,696 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,064 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 7 | #7,024 | 4.6 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,861 | 2.9 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,788 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,500 | 3.0 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,234 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Miri a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Miri has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 51 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Miri: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Miri, and how old are they?
An estimated 858 Americans named Miri and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 5 and 21. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,048 people named Miri (1,028 women and girls, 20 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 626 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Miri rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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 Miri born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 26 | #650 | 6.3× |
| New Jersey | 13 | #604 | 2.3× |
Where Miri is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Miri is most over-represented in New York: since 1962 it was given 6.3 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 Miri 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 84,225 babies since 1880, Miri is the fifth most given (1.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 47 of their 1,535 babies (3.1%), 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 Miri
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 Miri and names like it
- Compare Miri and MyraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMiri peaked in 2022.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Miri since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Miri.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Miri alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.