Mirt
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/mirt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mirt is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 8.9K(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 5.7K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 234K
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.
- Croatia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 35 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.7K (inferred from the name graph)
474 people, 2021
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
ipoc. gr. Miipv:4 din Dimitrios. 1. Mirto, 1960, bacan (Sd XVI). 2. Mirtea boier, 1570 (Olt). 3. Mirlian (Mar). -t + -en, -1 Mint, -I v. Mir on II 6. Misa, -iu v. Misail II 1, 3.
Sources 1
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mirt 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | 474 | 1 in 8.9K | 474 | Mirt | 35 |
| SI Slovenia | 372 | 1 in 5.7K | 372 | Mirt | 17 |
| US United States | 119 | 1 in 2.8M | 123 | Mirt | 7 |
| ES Spain | 17 | 1 in 2.9M | 17 | — | 1 |
| CZ Czechia | 7 | 1 in 1.5M | 7 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 5 | 1 in 1.7M | 5 | — | 1 |
| EE Estonia | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 234K | 16 | — | 1 |
474 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. 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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); MVČR — living population register 2017; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); the ee-stat-nimed register. 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)
Mirt is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, to die (to cease to live, to cease to exist biologically)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Acronym of multidimensional item response theory.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Polish, myrtle (any shrub of the genus Myrtus)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In pdt, myrtle
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Breton, myrte
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
In Romanian, MIRT, mirți, s. m. Arbust ornamental cu frunze alungite și persistente, cu flori mici, albe și parfumate, cultivat mai ales ca plantă ornamentală (Myrtus communis).
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
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)
- Vera Mirt Levovnikb. 1930SISlovenian university teacher
- Darko Mirtb. 1960SISlovene basketball coach
- Alenka Kesarb. 1970SInot in their usual nameSlovene TV host and writer
- Pika Krištof MirtSIresearcher
- Tadej MirtSISlovenian researcher
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 21 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 474 | #1,523 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 425 | — |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 372 | #968 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 123 | #139,785 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 119 | #140,157 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 119 | #131,366 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 17 | #91,572 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 16 | #7,113 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 14 | #7,886 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 7 | #95,353 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 5 | #101,952 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Wikipedia surname 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
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Mirt?
- A machine transcription gives /mirt/ (IPA) for Croatian.
- In which country does Mirt have the most bearers?
- In Croatia, the national register counted about 474 people named Mirt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mirt.
- Where is Mirt most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mirt is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 5.7 thousand people — even though Croatia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Mirt?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 474 people named Mirt in 2021, about 1 in 8.9 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mirtThe 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, “Mirt”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.