Meaning not yet researched.
Mirian: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 12 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,763 in 1923.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,763 in 1923; #8,699 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Mirian in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,699 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1923, at #1,763.
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Mirian: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 12 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,763 in 1923 · most girls in one year: 100 (2003).
In 2025, 12 US girls were named Mirian, making it the 8,699th most common girls’ name of the year, down 3,297 places from #5,402 in 2024. That is 12 fewer than the 24 girls named Mirian in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,763, reached in 1923. The most girls given the name in a single year was 100, in 2003. For comparison, it was #8,788 in 2015 and #2,861 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mirian in 113 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1911 with 5 babies. In all, 3,391 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 808 babies named Mirian.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 199 US girls were named Mirian; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 28. In 2025 that was about 1 in 133,939 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Miriam (118,190 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Merian, Mirren and Mihran are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Merian (204), Mirren (173), Mihran (162), Miraan (36), Miryan (17), Meriann (15), Merrian (11).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Mirian in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,699 | — | — |
| 2024 | 24 | #5,402 | — | — |
| 2023 | 28 | #4,832 | — | — |
| 2022 | 21 | #5,913 | — | — |
| 2021 | 21 | #5,885 | — | — |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,831 | — | — |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,602 | — | — |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,992 | — | — |
| 2017 | 23 | #5,616 | — | — |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,238 | — | — |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,788 | — | — |
| 2014 | 21 | #6,143 | — | — |
| 2013 | 29 | #4,843 | — | — |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,795 | — | — |
| 2011 | 30 | #4,777 | — | — |
| 2010 | 43 | #3,678 | — | — |
| 2009 | 47 | #3,499 | — | — |
| 2008 | 60 | #2,945 | — | — |
| 2007 | 72 | #2,591 | — | — |
| 2006 | 96 | #2,061 | — | — |
| 2005 | 88 | #2,116 | — | — |
| 2004 | 83 | #2,170 | — | — |
| 2003 | 100 | #1,853 | — | — |
| 2002 | 89 | #1,978 | — | — |
| 2001 | 80 | #2,087 | — | — |
| 2000 | 93 | #1,851 | — | — |
| 1999 | 64 | #2,330 | — | — |
| 1998 | 64 | #2,234 | — | — |
| 1997 | 57 | #2,353 | — | — |
| 1996 | 72 | #1,971 | — | — |
| 1995 | 70 | #1,970 | — | — |
| 1994 | 70 | #2,017 | — | — |
| 1993 | 82 | #1,790 | — | — |
| 1992 | 77 | #1,851 | — | — |
| 1991 | 61 | #2,176 | — | — |
| 1990 | 67 | #2,019 | — | — |
| 1989 | 50 | #2,355 | — | — |
| 1988 | 37 | #2,844 | — | — |
| 1987 | 34 | #2,890 | — | — |
| 1986 | 33 | #2,888 | — | — |
| 1985 | 36 | #2,684 | — | — |
| 1984 | 34 | #2,712 | — | — |
| 1983 | 47 | #2,120 | — | — |
| 1982 | 52 | #2,009 | — | — |
| 1981 | 46 | #2,218 | — | — |
| 1980 | 26 | #3,282 | — | — |
| 1979 | 32 | #2,775 | — | — |
| 1978 | 34 | #2,548 | — | — |
| 1977 | 26 | #3,052 | — | — |
| 1976 | 25 | #2,979 | — | — |
| 1975 | 24 | #3,022 | — | — |
| 1974 | 32 | #2,419 | — | — |
| 1973 | 26 | #2,719 | — | — |
| 1972 | 25 | #2,800 | — | — |
| 1971 | 30 | #2,525 | — | — |
| 1970 | 26 | #2,748 | — | — |
| 1969 | 31 | #2,334 | — | — |
| 1968 | 21 | #2,842 | — | — |
| 1967 | 28 | #2,303 | — | — |
| 1966 | 26 | #2,393 | — | — |
| 1965 | 30 | #2,191 | — | — |
| 1964 | 26 | #2,454 | — | — |
| 1963 | 23 | #2,591 | — | — |
| 1962 | 28 | #2,295 | — | — |
| 1961 | 23 | #2,586 | — | — |
| 1960 | 27 | #2,282 | — | — |
| 1959 | 27 | #2,222 | — | — |
| 1958 | 25 | #2,294 | — | — |
| 1957 | 27 | #2,149 | — | — |
| 1956 | 25 | #2,231 | — | — |
| 1955 | 24 | #2,260 | — | — |
| 1954 | 17 | #2,764 | — | — |
| 1953 | 13 | #3,222 | — | — |
| 1952 | 23 | #2,181 | — | — |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,423 | — | — |
| 1950 | 14 | #2,861 | — | — |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,549 | — | — |
| 1948 | 14 | #2,793 | — | — |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,622 | — | — |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,888 | — | — |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,312 | — | — |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,956 | — | — |
| 1943 | 10 | #3,188 | — | — |
| 1942 | 5 | #5,145 | — | — |
| 1941 | 9 | #3,175 | — | — |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,898 | — | — |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,734 | — | — |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,732 | — | — |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,352 | — | — |
| 1935 | 8 | #3,349 | — | — |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,880 | — | — |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,652 | — | — |
| 1932 | 10 | #2,982 | — | — |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,248 | — | — |
| 1929 | 15 | #2,270 | — | — |
| 1928 | 15 | #2,351 | — | — |
| 1927 | 22 | #1,865 | — | — |
| 1926 | 11 | #2,990 | — | — |
| 1925 | 23 | #1,831 | — | — |
| 1924 | 17 | #2,283 | — | — |
| 1923 | 24 | #1,763 | — | — |
| 1922 | 11 | #3,096 | — | — |
| 1921 | 15 | #2,466 | — | — |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,523 | — | — |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,632 | — | — |
| 1918 | 11 | #2,962 | — | — |
| 1917 | 10 | #3,011 | — | — |
| 1916 | 20 | #1,780 | — | — |
| 1915 | 6 | #4,095 | — | — |
| 1914 | 12 | #2,087 | — | — |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,722 | — | — |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,866 | — | — |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,740 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).