Mirta
Mirta was last recorded in 2009, when 5 babies were given it; 860 Americans have been recorded with it between 1931 and 2009 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mirta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mirta?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #19,276, in 2009; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
30 babies in 1963, the peak
Mirta peaked in 1963, when 30 girls were given it, #2,197 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 5 | #19,276 | 2.7 |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,303 | 2.7 |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,917 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,261 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,725 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,412 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,260 | 5.6 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,564 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,552 | 5.2 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,332 | 4.0 |
Every recorded year (61)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 5 | #14,944 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,908 | 7.2 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,195 | 8.1 |
| 1991 | 20 | #4,930 | 10.7 |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,203 | 9.5 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,836 | 5.4 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,274 | 3.4 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,765 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,213 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,250 | 8.1 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,650 | 9.5 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,373 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,774 | 7.1 |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,663 | 9.6 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,185 | 5.4 |
| 1979 | 16 | #4,539 | 10.0 |
| 1978 | 18 | #4,022 | 11.8 |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,567 | 9.8 |
| 1976 | 18 | #3,769 | 12.3 |
| 1975 | 25 | #2,932 | 17.1 |
| 1974 | 17 | #3,811 | 11.6 |
| 1973 | 26 | #2,720 | 17.8 |
| 1972 | 27 | #2,647 | 17.7 |
| 1971 | 23 | #3,030 | 13.8 |
| 1970 | 21 | #3,173 | 12.0 |
| 1969 | 15 | #3,723 | 8.9 |
| 1968 | 21 | #2,843 | 12.8 |
| 1967 | 26 | #2,413 | 15.7 |
| 1966 | 21 | #2,724 | 12.4 |
| 1965 | 24 | #2,516 | 13.6 |
| 1964 | 24 | #2,580 | 12.7 |
| 1963 | 30 | #2,197 | 15.6 |
| 1962 | 28 | #2,295 | 14.2 |
| 1961 | 29 | #2,231 | 14.4 |
| 1960 | 14 | #3,472 | 6.9 |
| 1959 | 13 | #3,564 | 6.4 |
| 1958 | 26 | #2,240 | 12.9 |
| 1957 | 14 | #3,251 | 6.8 |
| 1956 | 27 | #2,137 | 13.4 |
| 1955 | 17 | #2,799 | 8.7 |
| 1954 | 10 | #3,885 | 5.1 |
| 1953 | 17 | #2,664 | 9.0 |
| 1952 | 13 | #3,145 | 7.0 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,269 | 4.4 |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,212 | 4.7 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,785 | 2.9 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,777 | 2.9 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,857 | 2.8 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,864 | 4.1 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,689 | 4.8 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,777 | 4.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mirta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mirta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 61 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mirta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mirta, and how old are they?
An estimated 765 Americans named Mirta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (89% of everyone recorded); the median is 54 years old and half are between 42 and 64. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 4,942 people named Mirta (4,938 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 792 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6.2 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).
Where are babies named Mirta born?
The states with the most babies named Mirta are Texas, New York and California, with 98% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 157 | not ranked | 2.6× |
| New York | 125 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| California | 32 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Mirta is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Mirta is most over-represented in Texas: since 1931 it was given 2.6 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 Mirta 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,056 babies since 1880, Mirta is the second most given (42% of them).
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 Mirta
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 Mirta and names like it
- Compare Mirta and MyrtaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sMirta peaked in 1963.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mirta since 1910.
- The top names of 1963The year the most babies were named Mirta.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Mirta alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with MMost given first.