Fun Facts About the Name Miran
- 461 babies named Miran: U.S. records list 461 babies given the name Miran from 1880 through 2025. Even 28 girls received the name Miran - about 1 girl for every 15 boys.
What Does the Name Miran Mean?
Miran has more than one independent origin. In Slovene and other South Slavic languages it is a masculine name built on the Slavic element mir, "peace" (the same word also means "world" in some Slavic languages). With the ending -an it is generally understood as "peaceful." The mir element also appears in the compound names Miroslav, Vladimir, and Jaromir, and in the shortened Mirko, Miro, Mira, and Mirjana, but those are separate names rather than parents or variants of Miran.
In Korean, Miran (미란) is a feminine name written with Sino-Korean characters. The best-known combination is 美蘭, from 美 "beautiful" and 蘭 "orchid," which gives the sense "beautiful orchid." The second syllable can be written with other hanja, however, so the meaning depends on the characters a family chooses and is not fixed by the sound alone.
Miran is also used in Kurdish, Persian, and Arabic-speaking regions, where it is commonly connected with mîr, "prince" or "chief" (emir); in Kurdish, mîran serves as a plural or honorific form, "princes." A single documented derivation for all of those uses is not available.
Miran Name History & Origins
Miran belongs to the Slavic family of names formed from mir. Two-part names such as Miroslav and Vladimir are attested in medieval Slavic sources, and short forms like Miro and Mirko are old as well. Miran is a separate given name formed from the same element, with the -an ending rather than a second name element; it is used chiefly in Slovenia and Croatia, where Miran is an ordinary masculine name and not merely a nickname.
Korean Miran follows a different path. Two-syllable given names made from Sino-Korean characters are the standard pattern in Korea, and 미란 is one of many feminine combinations; 美 ("beautiful") with 蘭 ("orchid") is a familiar pairing, while other hanja for the same sound produce different meanings. In Korean, the name is normally written in hangul with the hanja supplied only in formal documents.
In Kurdish usage, Miran is tied to the word mîr, "prince, chief," and the form appears in Kurdish place names and tribal names as well as as a personal name. Names that look similar in other languages are unrelated: the Greek Myron comes from myron, "myrrh," and the Basque Miren is a form of Maria, so neither is a source of Miran.
How Popular is the Name Miran?
Miran 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 2022. Its best rank was #1,961 in 2022.
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 | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #14,367 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 2024 | #14,657 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 2023 | #14,591 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 2021 | #16,886 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2020 | #16,740 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #2,032 | 74 | 0.0043% |
| 2024 | #2,536 | 53 | 0.0031% |
| 2023 | #2,678 | 49 | 0.0029% |
| 2022 | #1,961 | 79 | 0.0045% |
| 2021 | #3,102 | 39 | 0.0022% |
| 2020 | #3,181 | 36 | 0.0021% |
| 2019 | #3,538 | 32 | 0.0018% |
| 2018 | #6,988 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2017 | #9,416 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 2016 | #8,596 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2015 | #10,257 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2014 | #6,927 | 12 | 0.0006% |
| 2010 | #13,613 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2009 | #10,621 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2008 | #13,932 | 5 | 0.0002% |
| 1975 | #5,239 | 6 | 0.0004% |
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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How the Name Miran Shapes Your Personality and Life?
You have psychic power. You can carry on for others with joy. You have a receptive nature and may bear burdens for others. You are pragmatic, thorough, strong-willed, practical and stubborn at times. You are hard working, often martyr to duty. You like home and security above all. You are intuitive and might be interested in the arts, drama or science.
You are always looking for a chance to do your own thing, to be your own person, and to have things done your own way.
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