Fun Facts About the Name Miraj
- 198 babies named Miraj: U.S. records list 198 babies given the name Miraj from 1880 through 2025. Even 20 girls received the name Miraj - about 1 girl for every 9 boys.
What Does the Name Miraj Mean?
The name Miraj comes from Arabic miʿrāj (مِعْرَاج), a noun built on the root ʿ-r-j, which has the sense of going up or ascending. Formed as a noun of instrument, it literally means a means of rising - a ladder, a stairway, or the act of mounting upward. In Islamic usage the word specifically names the Prophet Muhammad's ascent through the heavens, the Miʿrāj, which follows the night journey (isrāʾ) mentioned in the Quran (17:1) and described in detail in the hadith. The customary sense of the name is therefore "ascension," while the older literal sense is "ladder" or "means of ascent."
Miraj Name History & Origins
The word miʿrāj entered Islamic vocabulary through accounts of the night journey. The seventeenth surah of the Quran, al-Isrāʾ, opens with the journey from Mecca to the "farthest mosque," and the hadith collections, especially those of al-Bukhārī and Muslim, go on to describe an ascent through the seven heavens in which the miʿrāj is the means of rising. That religious association gave the word its weight, and it was taken up as a personal name in Muslim communities.
As a given name, Miraj is used chiefly in South Asia (Pakistan, India, Bangladesh) and in the Middle East. It also appears in adapted local forms: Turkish Miraç and Bosnian or Balkan Mirač, in which the Arabic letter ʿayn and the long vowel are reshaped to fit Turkish and Slavic spelling habits. English transliterations vary - Miraj, Meraj, Miraaj, Mi'raj - and no single spelling has become standard.
Miraj is likewise the name of a city in Maharashtra, India. That place name has its own separate and uncertain origin and is not evidence for the derivation of the personal name.
How Popular is the Name Miraj?
Miraj has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2025. Its best rank was #6,951 in 2015.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | #16,953 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2019 | #17,225 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2014 | #18,379 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2012 | #18,682 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #7,058 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2024 | #9,550 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 2023 | #9,453 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 2022 | #7,576 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2021 | #8,606 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2020 | #7,342 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2019 | #9,454 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 2018 | #9,372 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 2017 | #8,607 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2016 | #7,961 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 2015 | #6,951 | 12 | 0.0006% |
| 2014 | #8,573 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2012 | #7,943 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 2010 | #10,398 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2006 | #10,292 | 7 | 0.0003% |
| 2001 | #11,737 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2000 | #11,583 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1999 | #11,034 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1998 | #9,248 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1996 | #8,643 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1994 | #7,498 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1991 | #9,140 | 5 | 0.0002% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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