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Mirabelle vs Mirna

American parents have registered 4,159 Mirnas since 1880, against 1,610 Mirabelles. But in 2025 it was Mirabelle that was commoner, 82 babies to 31.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Mirabelle against Mirna, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Mirabelle Mirna

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 78 years in which either name was published, Mirna for 60 years and Mirabelle for 18 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Mirabelle Mirna
Total US births 1,6104,159
Most in one year 99123
Babies in 2025 8231
Estimated living today 1,6004,000
Median age today 937
Peak year 20151974
Best rank 1,996th girls992nd girls
Rank in 2025 2,239th4,460th
First recorded 19971947
Girls / boys 1,610 / 04,154 / 5

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Mirnas alive today are over 37; half the Mirabelles are over 9. That is 28 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Mirabelle Mirna
France 390330
England and Wales 32926
Switzerland 2020

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Mirabelle and Mirna.