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Mirna vs Miroslava

American parents have registered 4,159 Mirnas since 1880, against 816 Miroslavas. Mirna is still ahead, with 31 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Mirna Miroslava

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 77 years and Miroslava for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Mirna Miroslava
Total US births 4,159816
Most in one year 12326
Babies in 2025 3119
Estimated living today 4,000780
Median age today 3723
Peak year 19742017
Best rank 992nd girls5,045th girls
Rank in 2025 4,460th6,116th
First recorded 19471951
Girls / boys 4,154 / 5816 / 0

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 Miroslavas are over 23. That is 14 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 Mirna Miroslava
France 33035
England and Wales 2675
Switzerland 2018

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: Mirna and Miroslava.