Mirela
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- mih-REL-a
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,935 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #11,928 for girls
Mirela is a girls' name. In 2025 it ranked 4,935th for girls in the UK (4 babies) and 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).
What does Mirela mean?
Spelling of Mirella; Italian form of Mireille, from Provençal (Occitan) Mirèio
Mirèio, the Provençal original, was popularised by Frédéric Mistral's 1859 poem of that name.
Meaning borrowed from Mirella.
Is Mirela a girl's or a boy's name?
Mirela is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 4 girls in the UK and 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Mirela in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,935th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 4 about 1 in 70,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady down 12% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 4 girls in the UK were named Mirela, making it the 4,935th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,009th. Its busiest year was 2020, with 8 girls.
Half of all the girls named Mirela in the UK since 1996 were born between 2013 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 16 girls in the UK were given Mirela or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,607, up from #4,935 for this spelling alone.
- Mirella 12
- Mirela 4
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,866th in England and Wales.
Mirela in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 | #4,935 |
| 2024 | 5 | #4,253 |
| 2023 | 6 | #3,766 |
| 2022 | 4 | #4,870 |
| 2021 | 5 | #4,148 |
| 2020 | 8 | #3,009 |
| 2019 | 5 | #4,214 |
| 2018 | 4 | #4,914 |
| 2017 | 6 | #3,774 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 4 | #4,953 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 3 | #6,007 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 4 | #4,795 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 3 | #4,074 |
| 1999 | 3 | #4,041 |
How popular is Mirela in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 11,928th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 230,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the US were named Mirela, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 11,085th. Its busiest year was 2001, with 12 girls. It first appears in the records in 1998.
Half of all the girls named Mirela in the US since 1880 were born between 2005 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 53 girls in the US were given Mirela or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,492, up from #11,928 for this spelling alone.
- Mirella 46
- Mirela 7
Mirela in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,928 |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,288 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,164 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,237 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,287 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,085 |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,730 |
| 2018 | 6 | #13,788 |
| 2017 | 5 | #15,898 |
| 2016 | 7 | #12,871 |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,477 |
| 2014 | 6 | #14,552 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,175 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,270 |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,288 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 5 | #17,630 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,415 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,123 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,426 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,189 |
| 2000 | 8 | #10,738 |
| 1999 | 6 | #12,681 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,254 |
Names like Mirela
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Maeva, Amara, Sienna, Mila, Arabella, Aria, Luna, Amira, Safa, Liyana, Alora, Syeda
Other spellings of Mirela
Names related to Mirela
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, “Mirela: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/mirela, updated 20 October 2026.