Mirela
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/miɾɛlɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mirela is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- RORomania≈1 in 401(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 3.3K
- ITItaly≈1 in 8.5K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 195 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 365 (inferred from the name graph)
64,067 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Bosnia & Herzegovina, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Mirella är en italiensk form av det franska Mireille, i sin tur en variant av det occitanska Mirèio, kanske bildat till verbet mirar ’beundra’. Namnet Mirèio användes av fransmannen Frédéric Mistral (1830–1914) till ett diktepos. Namnet Mireille blev i sin tur bekant genom en opera av Charles Gounod (1864) som bygger på Mistrals verk. En känd namnbärare är den franska sångerskan Mireille Mathieu (f. 1946). Stavningen Mirela, som används i Rumänien och på Balkan, är den vanligaste i Sverige idag.
Sources 2
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Nordic Names
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mirela 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 64,067 | 1 in 3.3K | 64K | Mirela | 121 |
| RO Romania | #254 | ≈53,000 est. | ≈1 in 401 | — | Mirela | 52 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #418 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 365 | — | Mirela | 16 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈7,300 est. | ≈1 in 8.5K | 2 | Mirela | 46 |
| HR Croatia | — | 6,322 | 1 in 669 | 6.3K | — | 3 |
| AL Albania | — | 4,566 | 1 in 673 | 4.6K | — | 1 |
| MD Moldova | — | 2,632 | 1 in 1.3K | 2.6K | — | 4 |
64,067 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); e-services.md — living population register; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Mirela Ivanovab. 1962BGBulgarian poet
- Mirela Kumbarob. 1966ALAlbanian politician
- Mirela Holyb. 1971HRCroatian politician
- Mirela Oprișorb. 1973RORomanian actress
- Mirela Pașcab. 1975ROgymnast
- Mirela Manianib. 1976ALGreek javelin thrower
- Mirela Țugurlanb. 1979RORomanian gymnast
- Mirela Zețab. 1982ROactor
- Mirela Demirevab. 1989BGBulgarian high jumper
- Elena Mirela Lavricb. 1991RORomanian distance runner
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 59 sources across 32 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 64K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 64K | #478 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 34K | #1,011 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 14K | — |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 6.3K | #166 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 5.7K | — |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 4.6K | #31 |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 2.6K | #233 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 393 | #478 |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 2 | #4,188 |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- How do you pronounce Mirela?
- A machine transcription gives /miɾɛlɐ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- Is Mirela a male or female name?
- Mirela 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.
- What are other forms of the name Mirela?
- In the etymology graph, Mireya, Mireille and Mirella are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Mirela have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 64 thousand people named Mirela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mirela.
- How common is the name Mirela?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 64,067 people named Mirela in 2022, about 1 in 3.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Mirela compared with other names?
- In Romania, Mirela is the 254th most common given name of 34,167 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Mirela?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mirelaThe 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, “Mirela” — the 254th most common given name in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.