Mirah
given name · Latin script
Meaning: obsolete form of merah
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries
/mˈirah/(machine-generated) Indonesian · model-generated
Mirah is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 59K(inferred from the name graph)
- DKDenmark1 in 101K
- SESweden1 in 232K
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.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 80 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 59K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,800 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Indonesia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)obsolete form of merah
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mirah 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 59K | listed | Mirah | 80 |
| US United States | 548 | 1 in 607K | 541 | Mirah | 19 |
| PH Philippines | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 241K | — | Mirah | 9 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 899K | — | Mirah | 4 |
| IN India | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 7.6M | — | Mirah | 5 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 110K | — | Mirah | 15 |
| OM Oman | ≈59 est. | ≈1 in 90K | — | Mirah | 2 |
| DK Denmark | 58 | 1 in 101K | 58 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 44 | 1 in 232K | 44 | — | — |
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; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)Mirah 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.
Com, food,
as a nameDictionary of Islamic Names
Mare
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
In btx, red (of coloration in fighting cocks)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In kaw, ruby; red, ruby-red, blood-red
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In ban, ruby
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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.
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)25 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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 Mirah?
- In Indonesian /mˈirah/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Mirah mean, and where does it come from?
- obsolete form of merah Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Mirah have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.8 thousand people named Mirah in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mirah.
- Is Mirah a male or female name?
- Mirah is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- How common is the name Mirah?
- In the United States, the national register counted 548 people named Mirah in 2020, about 1 in 607 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mirahThe 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, “Mirah”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.