Fun Facts About the Name Mireia
- 49 babies named Mireia: U.S. records list 49 babies given the name Mireia from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Mireia Mean?
Mireia is the Catalan form of the Occitan name Mirèio, which is familiar in French as Mireille. It goes back to the Provençal verb mirar, "to look at, to admire," which descends from Latin mirari, "to wonder at, to admire," and ultimately from mirus, "wonderful." The name is therefore usually glossed as "admirable" or "wonderful." The literal sense comes from the verb, while the common gloss "admirable" is the customary interpretation of that root. Whether the personal name grew directly out of the ordinary Provençal word or was shaped from the verb as a given name is not clearly documented, but both explanations point to the same Latin source.
Mireia Name History & Origins
Mireia belongs to the Occitan and Catalan speech area of southern France and northeastern Spain. The Occitan form Mirèio is closely associated with Frédéric Mistral's narrative poem Mirèio, published in 1859, whose title character bears the name. Charles Gounod's opera Mireille, first performed in 1864, is based on that poem and uses the French form Mireille.
The Catalan form Mireia developed alongside the Occitan and French shapes and is the form the name takes in Catalonia, where it is used as a given name. Spanish outside Catalonia more often uses the form Mireya. As a result, Mireia is chiefly a Catalan name, Mireille the usual French one, and Mirèio the Occitan original.
How Popular is the Name Mireia?
Mireia 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 2021. Its best rank was #8,818 in 2021.
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 | #14,368 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 2023 | #14,592 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 2021 | #8,818 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2018 | #12,137 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 2017 | #17,607 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2016 | #13,892 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2005 | #18,304 | 5 | 0.0003% |
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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