Mira

Where Mira comes from

* Borrowed from Hindi मीरा (mīrā), name of a 16th century Indian poetess, also affectionately called Mirabai. * As occasionally borne by anglophones in the West, the name may also be borrowed from Slavic, or be a short form of Miranda.
— Wiktionary's entry for Mira
  • India
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1887
    First appearance
    #1,147 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1955
    Mira Furlan born
    Croatian actress and singer
  3. 1967
    Mira Sorvino born
    American actress
  4. 2025
    Peak, #335
    916 babies named Mira — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from India.
Namesakes
  • Mira Sorvino · American actress, born 1967
  • Mira Furlan · Croatian actress and singer, 1955–2021
  • Mira Nair · Indian-American filmmaker, born 1957
  • Mira Awad · Arab-Israeli singer and actress of paternal Palestinian descent, born 1975
  • Mira Rai · Nepalese trail runner and sky runner, born 1988

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.