Meira

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Meira is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In the United Arab Emirates it is the 28th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 295as Mira(measured from records)
  • FIFinland1 in 544as Milla
  • AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 1.4Kas Meera

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Meira itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

47,530 named Mila, 2020

#753 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

8 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
354 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 295 (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia, as Mira

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MiraLatin(measured from records)
МираCyrillic(measured from records)
מירהHebrew(measured from records)
미라Hangul(measured from records)
ՄիլաArmenian(measured from records)
ไมลาThai(measured from records)
მირაGeorgian(measured from records)
ΜηλαGreek(measured from records)

6 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Mira in US United States, HR Croatia, FI Finland and 2 more, 미라 in KR South Korea, Mila in PH Philippines and Meera in AE United Arab Emirates.

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)

recorded in Lithuanian

Gali būti pravardinė pvd., sietina su liet. meird „miegas, snaudulys“ (LKŽ VII 1016). Tačiau įmanomas ryšys ir su Meirfs (žT.).

Sources 2

  • Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
  • Nordic Names

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Meira 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.

Where Meira is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—47,530as Mila1 in 7K57KMira354
PH Philippines#793≈45,000 est.≈1 in 2.5K25KMila77
KR South Korea#230≈36,000 est.≈1 in 1.4K—미라75
HR Croatia#7314,354as Mira1 in 29514KMira70
EG Egypt#623≈13,000 est.≈1 in 8.2K—Mira71
FI Finland#40410,238as Milla1 in 54410KMira44
AE United Arab Emirates#28≈7,100 est.≈1 in 1.4K—Meera95
MK North Macedonia#5974,147as Мила1 in 5134.1KMira10

47,530 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling mila. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Top 500 First Names in the Philippines (PSA FOI response, tracking; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); State Statistical Office — living population names. 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Meira is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, Portugal, United States

    Also written Meïra, Méïra, Méira, Mëirâ

  • Indonesian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Meira, Meira'

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Méïra

  • Bulgarian name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bulgaria

    Also written Мейра, Meйra

41 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Meira is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In non, inflection of mikill:

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Faroese, more

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In fax, wood

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Lithuanian, Gali būti pravardinė pvd., sietina su liet. meird „miegas, snaudulys“ (LKŽ VII 1016). Tačiau įmanomas ryšys ir su Meirfs (žT.).

    as a wordVanagas, Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18001850190019502000Olinto José Meira, b. 1829Raimundo Meira, b. 1866Tarcísio Meira, b. 1935Sérgio Meira, b. 1968Moet Meira, b. 1970Vitor Meira, b. 1977Fernando Meira, b. 1978Cristèle Alves Meira, b. 1983João Diogo Serpa Meira, b. 1987Kronno Zomber, b. 1992

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 56 sources across 28 countries.

Official registers attesting Meira
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.2K#10,695
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020218#90,848
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010154#113,791
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—127#2,460
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—103—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000102#148,244
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202593—
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202130#3,046
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)202122—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—15#27,751
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201#10,695
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Meira have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 48 thousand people named Mila, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Meira most common?
No national register we hold counts the spelling Meira itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Croatia's: the national register counts about 1 in 295 people named Mira.
How common is the name Meira?
In the United States, the national register counted 47,530 people named Mila in 2020, about 1 in 7.0 thousand residents.
How common is Meira compared with other names?
In the United Arab Emirates, Meira is the 28th most common given name of 31,430 given names recorded there.

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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, “Meira” — the 28th most common given name in United Arab Emirates. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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