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Mirna vs Mirza

American parents have registered 4,159 Mirnas since 1880, against 689 Mirzas. Mirna is still ahead, with 31 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Mirna Mirza

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

Mirna has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1947 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2023, when Mirna had 19 and Mirza had 19.

Side by side

  Mirna Mirza
Total US births 4,159689
Most in one year 12330
Babies in 2025 3117
Estimated living today 4,000670
Median age today 3720
Peak year 19742001
Best rank 992nd girls3,721st boys
Rank in 2025 4,460th5,399th
First recorded 19471960
Girls / boys 4,154 / 5135 / 554

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 Mirzas are over 20. That is 17 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 Mirza
France 330275
England and Wales 26523
Switzerland 2067

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.

Compare something else

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