Mira
Meaning
"peace"
The story
Mira is a small name with a remarkable number of roots, arriving independently in several languages at once. In Sanskrit it means sea or ocean, and it belonged to Mirabai, the sixteenth-century Indian princess and poet who gave up a palace for her devotion to Krishna. In Slavic languages it means peace or world. In Latin it echoes mirus, wonderful, the source of the star named Mira, the Wonderful, one of the first variable stars ever recorded. It also serves as a short form of names like Miriam and Amira. Its best-known bearer in technology is Mira Murati, the Albanian-American executive who served as OpenAI's chief technology officer and now leads the AI company Thinking Machines Lab as co-founder and chief executive. Short, luminous and universal, Mira hands a child a name that means something lovely in almost every language it lands in.
The formal names behind Mira
Mira is an established short form of each of these names.
Miranda · Latin origin · means 'admirable', coined by Shakespeare from Latin 'mirandus' for The Tempest
Amira · Arabic origin · princess, leader
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Mira peaked in the 2020s.
See popularity in Brazil
Popularity in Brazil
1,249 people · the #7,135 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 166,667 · median age 47
Among people named Mira living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1970s than in any other decade.
The census also counted 21 born between 2020 and August 2022, too recent a span to chart.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
When you meet Mira
Most people given the name Mira in the United States are children or teenagers today. The name belongs to this generation.
Estimated from US Social Security birth registrations and typical lifespans; a rough guide, not a rule.
The Mira deep dive
Whether you’re naming a baby or exploring your own name’s history, this is a personal letter, not a list: where Mira truly comes from, how it traveled, and what a century of records reveals. If you have grown a tree on nametree, it also considers how Mira fits with your family’s names and surname.
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