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Mirka

Feminine · “peace”

1992high 1995
Rare todaygiven to only a few children a year
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Mirka is a Czech and Slovak pet form of Miroslava, and one Miroslava who went by it became known far beyond tennis. Mirka Vavrinec, born in Slovakia and raised in Switzerland, played for the Swiss at the Sydney Olympics, where she met Roger Federer; she is now Mirka Federer.

How old is the name Mirka?

Mirka first appears in US birth records in 1992 — 33 years ago. The typical Mirka alive today was born around 2001, making them about 24 years old. About 500 people named Mirka are estimated to be alive in the US today.

When was the name Mirka most popular?

Mirka peaked in 1995, reaching #2456 nationally. See the whole 1995 chart.

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Where it comes from

The story of Mirka

The mir at the front of the name is one of the old shared Slavic words. In Czech, mír means peace; in Russian, mir grew three meanings, peace, the world, and the self-governing village commune that ran peasant life before the Revolution, and the Soviet space station launched in 1986 was named Mir. Miroslava Vavrinec was born in Bojnice in 1978, moved to Switzerland with her family as a small child, reached the world's top hundred in women's tennis, and left the tour in 2002 after a foot injury.

Meaning

peace, through Miroslava

Miroslava joins two Slavic words, mir, peace, and slava, glory. Mirka keeps the first and adds the -ka that Czech and Slovak use for the everyday forms of women's names.

How the name formed

  1. Slavic mir + slava
  2. Miroslava
  3. Mirka

Related forms: Miroslava · Mirosława · Mira

Pronouncing Mirka

MEER-kah

Czech and Slovak stress the first syllable and tap the r lightly. Americans reading it cold sometimes say MUR-kuh.

Nicknames for Mirka

Limited

MiraAnother common short form of Miroslava, and a given name on its own in several Slavic languages
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What the data says

The long climb, and where it stands now

GIRLS NAMED · 1992–20255226052619922015

US babies named Mirka per year from 1992 to 2025
AVERAGE RANK BY DECADE#1#10#100#1000#24561990s2010s

The same years in position rather than babies

First recorded
1992
Most girls named
199552 — the highest on record
Peak rank
#2456reached in 1995
Change vs 2011
+20.0%6 in 2015, from 5
Mirka sits in the rare tail. Its best year on record was 1995, with 52 girls. Today it is given to few enough children that it does not enter the ranked charts at all.

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.

Mirka in other languages

The same name elsewhere

  • Miroslava in Czech and Slovak — related form
  • Mirosława in Polish — related form
  • Mira in Croatian — related form

Mirkas among us

500

people named Mirka are estimated to be alive in the US today

Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method

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Is it right for you

Fashion outlook

Mirka sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.

Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them

The trade-off

Practical strengths
  • Two syllables and five letters, spelled the way it sounds once the i is heard as ee.
  • A well-known contemporary bearer means many people already know how it is said.
  • It honors a Miroslava or a Mira in the family without the full length.
What to consider
  • Said as MUR-kuh it comes close to murky; one correction usually fixes it.
  • In Czech and Slovak it reads as a nickname rather than a full name, much as Katie does in English.

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Frequently asked

How many Mirkas are there in the world?
No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Mirka are estimated to be alive in the US today.
How popular is the name Mirka in 2025?
Mirka is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
Will my child share the name Mirka with classmates?
Mirka will almost certainly be the only one in school.

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The most-given names starting with M, all years combined.

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