In 2025, 31 US girls were named Mirna, making it the 4,520th most common girls’ name of the year, up 2,054 places from #6,574 in 2024. That is 13 more than the 18 girls named Mirna in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #993, reached in 1974. That year also had the most girls given the name: 123. For comparison, it was #5,078 in 2015 and #2,998 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mirna in 78 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1947 with 5 babies. In all, 4,159 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 828 babies named Mirna.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 280 US girls were named Mirna; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 38. In 2025 that was about 1 in 51,847 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Myrna (31,742 babies since 1880), Mira (15,101 babies since 1880) and Merna (2,461 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Mirina are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Arabic. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.