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Updated March 13, 2024

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Girl name origins & meanings

  • Gaelic : Merry, filled with mirth
  • Hebrew : Light
  • Latin : Wonder
  • Spanish : Behold
  • Hebrew : Bitter
  • Latin : Extraordinary; to be admired; beautiful

Girl name variations

Meara

Meara

+ 15% this year
Feminine
Rare
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Meera

Meera

- 11% this year
Feminine
Rare
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Myra

Myra

+ 7% this year
Feminine
Uncommon
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Mirila

Mirila

0 % this year
Feminine
Rare
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Mirella

Mirella

- 12% this year
Feminine
Rare
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Mirelle

Mirelle

0 % this year
Feminine
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Mirielle

Mirielle

+ 4% this year
Feminine
Rare
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Myrilla

Myrilla

0 % this year
Feminine
Rare
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Miranda

Miranda

+ 10% this year
Feminine
Uncommon
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Myranda

Myranda

+ 40% this year
Feminine
Rare
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Meranda

Meranda

0 % this year
Feminine
Rare
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Randy

Randy

+ 1% this year
Neutral
Rare
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Mandy

Mandy

+ 22% this year
Feminine
Rare
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How Popular Is The Name Mira

Family name origins & meanings

  • Galician and Portuguese : probably a habitational name from any of the places in Galicia and Portugal named Mira.
  • Catalan : of uncertain origin; possibly from the Arabic personal name Amira, or a derivative of Mir.
  • Italian : apparently from the personal name Mira, feminine form of Miro, from Late Latin Mirus and Mira, respectively, from Latin mirus ‘wonderful’, ‘marvellous’.
  • Czech and Polish : from a pet form of any of various personal names formed with the element mir ‘peace’, ‘quiet’, ‘esteem’ (see Mir).

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