Miréille
given name · Latin script
Miréille is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country, where it is the 100th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Provençal Mirèio, presumably from mirar (“to admire”), invented by the poet Frédéric Mistral for his novel of that title (1859).
- CMCameroon≈1 in 410(inferred from the name graph)
- GAGabon≈1 in 850
- BEBelgium≈1 in 960
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 332 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 410 (inferred from the name graph)
≈91,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Cameroon, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Mireille in FR France, BE Belgium, NL Netherlands and 2 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- ProvençalMirèio(measured from records)
- Provençal rootmirar“to admire”(measured from records)
From Provençal Mirèio, presumably from mirar (“to admire”), invented by the poet Frédéric Mistral for his novel of that title (1859).
Cited for this meaning 4
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Wiktionary
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Nordic Names
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Miréille counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #100 | ≈91,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 5 | Mireille | 25 |
| CM Cameroon | #27 | ≈71,000 est. | ≈1 in 410 | — | Mireille | 41 |
| FR France | #236 | ≈66,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | 130K | Mireille | 332 |
| BE Belgium | #239 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 957 | 5 | Mireille | 100 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 4,912 | 1 in 3.5K | 4.9K | Mireille | 90 |
| GA Gabon | — | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 851 | 51 | — | 18 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Miréille mean, and where does it come from?
- From Provençal Mirèio, presumably from mirar (“to admire”), invented by the poet Frédéric Mistral for his novel of that title (1859). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
- Which countries have the most people named Miréille?
- Mondonomo estimates about 91 thousand people named Miréille in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mireille. After it come Cameroon, France, Belgium and Netherlands; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Miréille?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 4,912 people named Miréille, about 1 in 3.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Miréille compared with other names?
- In Congo - Kinshasa, Miréille is the 100th most common given name of 20,652 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mir%C3%A9illeThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Miréille” — the 100th most common given name in Congo - Kinshasa. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.