Mirella
Feminine · “to admire”
Mirella is the Italian form of a Provençal name with a datable birth: Mirèio, invented for a long poem published in 1859 that won its author a Nobel Prize and helped revive a language.
How old is the name Mirella?
Mirella first appears in US birth records in 1951 — 74 years ago. The typical Mirella alive today was born around 1997, making them about 28 years old. About 3,200 people named Mirella are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Mirella most popular?
Mirella peaked in 1997, reaching #1145 nationally. Today it ranks #3342, 2,197 places below that high. See the whole 1997 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Mirèio to Mirella
The story of Mirella
Frédéric Mistral wrote Mirèio in Provençal at a time when the language was being written down again after centuries of decline, and the poem made both the language and the name famous. French took it as Mireille and Italian as Mirella; Spanish has Mirella too. The name has been in steady Italian and Latin American use since, and it reaches American records from both directions.
Meaningscholars disagree
to admire, or wonderful
The poet who coined Mirèio connected it to a Provençal verb meaning to admire or to wonder at. A second account treats the name as a Provençal form of Miriam, which would give it an entirely different and much older origin. Neither has been settled.
How the name formed
- Mirèio
- Mireille
- Mirella
Related forms: Mireille · Mirèio · Mirella
Pronouncing Mirella
mee-REL-lah
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. Every letter is sounded in Italian.
Nicknames for Mirella
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1951
- Most girls named
- 1997163 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1145reached in 1997
- Change vs 2024
- −23.3%46 in 2025, from 60
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Mirella in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Mireille in French — same name
- Mirèio in Provençal — same name
- Mirella in Spanish — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.
Mirellas among us
people named Mirella are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 34,941 born in 2025 was named Mirella
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Mirella
- #3342
- Mirella on the 2025 chart
- #907
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Mirella went to 46 girls in 2025, but Mirela is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 53, which makes it the 907th most-given girls’ name of the year — 2,435 places above the chart.
- Mirella46
- Mirela7
About 1 girl in 30,326 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 34,941 for Mirella itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Nickole test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Mirella's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Nickole climbed just as high around 1972, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Nickole's path sketches the road Mirella is walking now.
Mirella sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Mirella is headed
Mirella looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 33% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Mirella beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Mirella in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A documented literary origin with a date and an author, which few names have.
- Mira and Ella are both complete names in their own right.
- Every letter is said, so Italian and Spanish speakers read it correctly at once.
- Mirella, Mariella and Marcella are close enough to be confused in speech.
- The meaning is contested between the poet's own gloss and an older Hebrew line.
- Americans will flatten the first vowel from mee to mih.
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Frequently asked
- How many Mirellas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 3,200 people named Mirella are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Mirella?
- Mirella is the most-used spelling in US records — 46 of the 53 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Mirela.
- How popular is the name Mirella in 2025?
- Mirella ranks #3342 among US girl names in 2025, with 46 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Mirella?
- About 1 in every 34,941 US girls born in 2025 was named Mirella — 46 in all.
- Will my child share the name Mirella with classmates?
- Mirella will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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