Fun Facts About the Name Mirla
- 54 babies named Mirla: U.S. records list 54 babies given the name Mirla from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Mirla Mean?
Mirla is used mainly as a Spanish feminine given name, and it is the Spanish word mirla, the female of the mirlo or blackbird (the common blackbird, Turdus merula). The word goes back to Latin merula, the Latin term for the bird, which also produced French merle, Italian merlo, and the English surname and given name Merle. In Spanish the name's literal sense is simply the bird; there is no separate abstract meaning attached to it. Etymologists often treat Latin merula as a borrowing from an older Mediterranean language rather than a word inherited from Indo-European, so the bird word itself has no further components that can be translated.
A second explanation treats Mirla as a Yiddish women's name, sometimes understood as a diminutive of Miriam. Yiddish does form pet names with -l endings (as in Mirel and Mirele from Miriam), so the pattern is plausible, but the specific form Mirla is thinly documented, and this derivation should be treated as uncertain rather than established.
Mirla Name History & Origins
Spanish naming tradition has long drawn on nature for girls' names - Paloma ("dove"), Azucena ("lily"), Rocío ("dew") - and Mirla, taken directly from the bird, fits that habit. The name is found in Spain and in Latin America, and it has been used in Venezuela and other Caribbean countries as well.
The word behind it is old. Latin merula named the blackbird in classical texts, and from it came a family of Romance bird words: Spanish mirlo and mirla, French merle, Italian merlo, Portuguese melro. The English surname and given name Merle entered English from French, not from Spanish, so Mirla and Merle are cousins through Latin rather than one being a form of the other.
In the English-speaking world Mirla has never been common and appears chiefly in families with Spanish-language backgrounds. The separate Yiddish name mentioned in the meaning section, if it is indeed a distinct tradition, would have developed independently among Yiddish speakers in Central and Eastern Europe.
How Popular is the Name Mirla?
Mirla 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 1907. Its best rank was #1,473 in 1907.
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 | #16,499 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1996 | #15,060 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1987 | #12,558 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1986 | #10,419 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1984 | #8,794 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1983 | #9,801 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 1982 | #11,655 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1908 | #2,031 | 6 | 0.0018% |
| 1907 | #1,473 | 9 | 0.0028% |
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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