Mireille
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mireille is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In Cameroon it is the 27th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Occitan/French form related to mirer ‘to admire’; literary origin.
- CMCameroon≈1 in 564(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 1.3K
- BEBelgium≈1 in 1.8K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 332 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 564 (inferred from the name graph)
≈51,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Cameroon, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Occitan/French form related to mirer ‘to admire’; literary origin
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mireille 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #236 | ≈51,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | 130K | Mireille | 332 |
| CM Cameroon | #27 | ≈49,000 est. | ≈1 in 564 | — | Mireille | 41 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #100 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | 5 | Mireille | 25 |
| BE Belgium | #239 | ≈6,700 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | 5 | Mireille | 100 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 4,912 | 1 in 3.5K | 4.9K | Mireille | 90 |
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. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Mireille is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Provençal name, from mirer 'to admire' or related roots.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
From Provencal Mireio. See main dictionary.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In French, Prénom provençal, lié au verbe « admirer »; fête non indiquée ici.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In French, Forme dérivée de Marie; origine hébraïque, « goutte de mer ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, Évoque le miracle, l’enfant inattendu; s’attache aussi à l’admiration et à un imaginaire de fusion maternelle. Fête/name-day non indiqué.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
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)
- Mireille Perreyb. 1904FRFrench actress (1904–1991)
- Mireille Balinb. 1909FRFrench actress
- Mireille Darcb. 1938FRFrench actress and director (1938–2017)
- Mireille Delmas-Martyb. 1941FRFrench lawyer & academic (1941-2022)
- Mireille Mathieub. 1946FRFrench singer (born 1946)
- Orlanb. 1947FRnot in their usual nameFrench performance artist (born 1947)
- Mireille Ballestrazzib. 1954FRPresident of INTERPOL
- Mireille Soriab. 1970USAmerican film producer
- Mireille Enosb. 1975USAmerican actress
- Cœur de pirateb. 1989CAnot in their usual nameCanadian musician
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 69 sources across 41 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2009 | 130K | #2,929 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 4.9K | #421 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 3.3K | #959 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 18 | #12,499 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2003 | 5 | #1,234 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 5 | #129 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What does the name Mireille mean, and where does it come from?
- Occitan/French form related to mirer ‘to admire’; literary origin Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- In which country does Mireille have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 51 thousand people named Mireille in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mireille.
- What are other forms of the name Mireille?
- In the etymology graph, Mireya, Mirella and Mirela are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Mireille?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 4,912 people named Mireille, about 1 in 3.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Mireille compared with other names?
- In France, Mireille is the 236th most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.
- Is Mireille a male or female name?
- Mireille is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mireilleThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Mireille” — the 236th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.