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Mirryn

Gender
Girl
Say it
MI-rin
Origin
Cornish

Mirryn is a girls' name of Cornish origin. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

What does Mirryn mean?

Cornish: probably a variant of Merryn

Probably a variant of Merryn, a Cornish name linked to the village of St Merryn.

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

Mirryn is a girls' name.

How popular is Mirryn in the UK?

No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2017, with 12 girls.

Half of all the girls named Mirryn in the UK since 1996 were born between 2012 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.

1999Busiest: 12 in 20172024
Mirryn in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20243#5,966
20235#4,251
20224#4,870
20215#4,148
202010#2,566
20198#3,018
20184#4,914
201712#2,336
20167#3,389
20155#4,294
201410#2,618
20137#3,338
20129#2,887
20114#4,980
20106#3,715
20093#5,801
20084#4,742
20071#7,017
20063#5,259
20052#6,264
20040–
20031#5,865
20020–
20013#4,156
20001#5,280
19991#5,182

Names like Mirryn

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Mirryn: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/mirryn, updated 20 October 2026.