Mireya

Where Mireya comes from

Mireya hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1946
    Mireya Moscoso born
    Panama's first female president
  2. 1951
    First appearance
    #4,833 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1967
    Mireya Luis born
    Female volleyball player from Cuba
  4. 1997
    Peak, #447
    567 babies named Mireya — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2000
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #895.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Mireya Moscoso · Panama's first female president, born 1946
  • Mireya Luis · Female volleyball player from Cuba, born 1967
  • Mireya Baltra · Chilean politician, 1932–2022
  • Mireya González · Spanish handball player, born 1991
  • Mireya Agüero · Honduran politician

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.