Mir
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A traditional village community in Imperial Russia, characterised by self-government and collectivist control of local lands
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mʲiə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mir is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 3K(inferred from the name graph)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 3.2K
- INIndia1 in 68Kas Mura
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 Mir 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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 184 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈72,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Afghanistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
Slavic stem, meaning uncertain; possibly 'peace' or related to germ. MAR
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Mir is read(measured from records)
Mir is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Hindi36%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Mir in Hindi.
- English12%
A traditional village community in Imperial Russia, characterised by self-government and collectivist control of local lands.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish9.8%
resident (physician in training)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Urdu7.6%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Mir in Urdu.
- Bangla7.3%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Mir in Bangla.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mir 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | #245 | ≈72,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Mir | 102 |
| BD Bangladesh | #174 | ≈55,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | listed | Mir | 107 |
| IN India | #859 | 19,513as Mura | 1 in 68K | 20K | Mir | 133 |
| AF Afghanistan | #420 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Mir | 32 |
| ES Spain | — | 6,521 | 1 in 7.7K | 6.5K | Mir | 32 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #221 | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | — | Mir | 84 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)
Mir 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 German, Slavic stem, meaning uncertain; possibly 'peace' or related to germ. MAR
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Mallorca
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In Arabic, prince, governor, leader
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, prince, governor, leader. Abbreviation of Ameer peel (A). Titu Mir (1782-1831): Bengali political leader.”!”
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
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)
- Juan-Miguel Villar Mirb. 1931ESSpanish businessperson and politician
- Sajid Mirb. 1938PKIslamic scholar and politician (1938-2025)
- Isabelle Mirb. 1949FRalpine skier
- Paco Mirb. 1957ESSpanish theatre and film director, actor, playwright and comics artist
- Yazdan Mirb. 1963IRIranian intelligence officer (1963-2026)
- Frank Mirb. 1979USAmerican mixed martial artist
- Usama Mirb. 1995PKPakistani cricketer
- Rafa Mirb. 1997ESSpanish association football player
- Joan Mirb. 1997ESSpanish motorcycle racer
- Emira Mirmusician
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 71 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 10K | #967 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 6.5K | #830 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 6.5K | #830 |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
- Rose, H.A. (ed.), A Glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North-West Frontier Province, Vol. III (L–Z)
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 Mir mean?
- In English, A traditional village community in Imperial Russia, characterised by self-government and collectivist control of local lands.
- Where does the name Mir come from?
- Slavic stem, meaning uncertain; possibly 'peace' or related to germ. MAR Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Mir?
- A machine transcription gives /mʲiə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Mir have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 72 thousand people named Mir in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mir.
- How common is the name Mir?
- In Spain, the national register counted 6,521 people named Mir, about 1 in 7.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Mir compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Mir is the 245th most common surname of 51,489 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mirThe 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, “Mir” — the 245th most common surname in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.