Mi-Ra
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mi-Ra is a female given name 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. Recorded meaning: A 20th century invention, borrowed from the Slavic diminutive of female names containing the element *mirъ (“peace”); also explained as a short form of Mirjam, or derived from the Latin name of the st.
- HRCroatia1 in 295(measured from records)
- EGEgypt≈1 in 8.2K
- FIFinland1 in 544as Milla
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 Mi-Ra 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)
- #753 (measured from records)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 354 (measured from records)
- 1 in 295 (inferred from the name graph)
47,530 named Mila, 2020
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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)A 20th century invention, borrowed from the Slavic diminutive of female names containing the element *mirъ (“peace”); also explained as a short form of Mirjam, or derived from the Latin name of the star.
Cited for this meaning 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Russian Names
- Wiktionary
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mi-Ra 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 47,530as Mila | 1 in 7K | 57K | Mira | 354 |
| PH Philippines | #793 | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | 25K | Mila | 77 |
| KR South Korea | #230 | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | 미라 | 75 |
| HR Croatia | #73 | 14,354 | 1 in 295 | 14K | Mira | 70 |
| EG Egypt | #623 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.2K | — | Mira | 71 |
| FI Finland | #404 | 10,238as Milla | 1 in 544 | 10K | Mira | 44 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #28 | ≈7,100 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Meera | 95 |
| MK North Macedonia | #597 | 4,147as Мила | 1 in 513 | 4.1K | Mira | 10 |
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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Yun Mi-rab. 1951KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
- Park Mi-rab. 1952KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean table tennis player
- Yook Mi-rab. 1962KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
- Kim Mi-rab. 1971KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
- Jeon Mi-rab. 1978KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean female tennis player
- Jeong Mi-rab. 1979KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean voice actress
- Yang Mi‑rab. 1982KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean model
- Park Mi-rab. 1987KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean handball player
- Jeong Mi-rab. 1987KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean sports shooter
- Moon Mi-rab. 1992KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean association football player
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)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mi-Ra mean, and where does it come from?
- A 20th century invention, borrowed from the Slavic diminutive of female names containing the element *mirъ (“peace”); also explained as a short form of Mirjam, or derived from the Latin name of the st… Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Russian Names and 6 other sources.
- Is Mi-Ra a male or female name?
- Mi-Ra 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.
- In which country does Mi-Ra 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 Mi-Ra most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mi-Ra is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 295 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Mi-Ra?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 14,354 people named Mi-Ra in 2021, about 1 in 295 residents.
- How common is Mi-Ra compared with other names?
- In the United Arab Emirates, Mi-Ra is the 28th most common given name of 31,430 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mi-raThe 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, “Mi-Ra” — the 28th most common given name in United Arab Emirates. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.