Mirna
Feminine · “beloved”
Mirna is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 4,154 girls against 5 boys since 1880.
Mirna is a spelling of Myrna, and the Irish name behind it is muirne — a word for affection, or possibly for high spirits.
How old is the name Mirna?
Mirna first appears in US birth records in 1947 — 78 years ago. The typical Mirna alive today was born around 1987, making them about 38 years old. About 4,000 people named Mirna are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Mirna most popular?
Mirna peaked in 1974, reaching #992 nationally. Today it ranks #4460, 3,468 places below that high. See the whole 1974 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Muirne to Mirna
The story of Mirna
Muirne is Fionn's mother in the Fenian cycle — she is taken by his father against her family's wishes and the child is raised in hiding. The name was anglicized as Myrna and Morna. An American actress made Myrna internationally familiar in the 1930s. Mirna is a spelling used in Spanish-speaking countries and in the Balkans and appears in American records from the 1960s.
Meaningscholars disagree
beloved, affection
From Irish Muirne, generally read as beloved or affection; a competing reading connects it to a word for spirit or festivity. The mother of Fionn mac Cumhaill is called Muirne in the legendary material.
How the name formed
- Muirne
- Myrna
- Mirna
Related forms: Muirne · Myrna · Mirna
Pronouncing Mirna
MEER-nah
Two syllables, first stressed. English Myrna gives MUR-nah.
Nicknames for Mirna
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
- 1947
- Most girls named
- 1975112 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #992reached in 1974
- Change vs 2023
- +63.2%31 in 2025, from 19
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.
Mirna in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Muirne in Irish — same name
- Myrna in English — spelling variant
- Mirna in Spanish — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, New York.
Mirnas among us
people named Mirna are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 51,847 born in 2025 was named Mirna
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Phyliss test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Mirna's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Phyliss climbed just as high around 1941, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Phyliss's path sketches the road Mirna is walking now.
Mirna 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 Mirna is headed
Mirna is easing off slowly — about 23% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.
Medium 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.
Mirna beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Mirna in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A documented Irish name with a genuinely deep legendary root.
- Five letters and two syllables, quick to write.
- Every letter is sounded, so Spanish speakers read it correctly at once.
- The first vowel differs between the English and Spanish readings.
- Myrna is the more common English spelling and will be assumed.
- It is strongly associated with one mid-century generation.
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Frequently asked
- How many Mirnas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 4,000 people named Mirna are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Mirna in 2025?
- Mirna ranks #4460 among US girl names in 2025, with 31 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Mirna?
- About 1 in every 51,847 US girls born in 2025 was named Mirna — 31 in all.
- Will my child share the name Mirna with classmates?
- Mirna will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Mirna
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