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Mira

The name Mira carries the meaning "Latin mirandus, admirable", with roots in Latin. It is currently on the rise, with its biggest decade yet in the 2010s. As things stand now, it is a distinctive, less common pick. It has appeared in U.S. birth records in nearly every decade since 1900, a genuinely long run.

EtymologyShort for Miranda/Mirabel
LatinLatin "mirandus" – "admirable"
Births by decade
1900s
19
1910s
92
1920s
100
1930s
104
1940s
169
1950s
341
1960s
338
1970s
385
1980s
442
1990s
902
2000s
2,593
2010s
3,747
Peaked in the 2010s · 9,232 total U.S. births since 1900