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Mirage

Girl · mi-RAHZH · English

Mirage is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “optical illusion”. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

What does Mirage mean?

English: English word, borrowed from French

“optical illusion”

From the French mirage, an optical illusion such as a pool of water seen in desert heat.

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Is Mirage a girl's or a boy's name?

Mirage is a girls' name.

How popular is Mirage in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2006, with 14 girls. It first appears in the records in 1991.

Half of all the girls named Mirage in the US since 1880 were born between 1997 and 2009, the years shaded on the chart below.

1991Busiest: 14 in 20062014
Mirage in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20148#11,925
20130–
20127#13,477
20116#14,816
20105#16,985
20096#15,236
20088#12,574
20070–
200614#8,234
20058#11,828
20049#10,684
20030–
20025#15,426
20017#12,049
20000–
19990–
19986#12,420
199712#7,278
19966#11,801
199510#8,074
19940–
19930–
19925#13,308
19915#13,139

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