Mihrimah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- mih-ree-MAH
- Origin
- Persian
- UK rank, 2025
- #2,856 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #5,721 for girls
Mihrimah is a girls' name of Persian origin, meaning “sun and moon”. In 2025 it ranked 2,856th for girls in the UK (9 babies) and 5,721st for girls in the US (21 babies).
What does Mihrimah mean?
Persian: mihr 'sun' + mah 'moon'
“sun and moon”
Borne by Mihrimah Sultan, daughter of Suleiman the Magnificent, for whom the architect Sinan built mosques.
Is Mihrimah a girl's or a boy's name?
Mihrimah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 girls in the UK and 21 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Mihrimah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 2,856th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 9 about 1 in 31,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 27% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 9 girls in the UK were named Mihrimah, making it the 2,856th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,744th.
2025 had the most girls named Mihrimah of any year since it first appeared, in 2013.
Among girls in 2025, it was 2,786th in England and Wales.
Mihrimah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #2,856 |
| 2024 | 5 | #4,253 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 5 | #4,168 |
| 2021 | 7 | #3,338 |
| 2020 | 4 | #4,744 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 7 | #3,344 |
| 2017 | 4 | #4,967 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 1 | #7,690 |
How popular is Mihrimah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,721st among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 21 about 1 in 77,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Newly popular new in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 21 girls in the US were named Mihrimah, making it the 5,721st most popular name for girls. It first appears in the records in 2016.
2025 had the most girls named Mihrimah of any year since it first appeared, in 2016.
Half of all the girls named Mihrimah in the US since 1880 were born between 2022 and 2025, the years shaded on the chart below.
Mihrimah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,721 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,590 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,635 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,377 |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,246 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,120 |
| 2016 | 7 | #12,871 |
Names like Mihrimah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Nusaybah, Ayah, Musfirah, Ruqayyah, Safa, Abeeha, Aafiyah, Aaliyah, Azeemah, Hadassah, Maymunah, Sumayyah
Names related to Mihrimah
More Persian names
Jasper, Esther, Jasmine, Casper, Cyrus, Yasmin, Darius, Zorawar, Kiyan, Rumi, Yasmine, Kasper, Mahnoor, Dario, Arian, Arman
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Mihrimah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/mihrimah, updated 20 October 2026.