girls:
9.5k births since 1951
#1660 (71st percentile)
overall:
9.5k births since 1951
#2763 (64th percentile)
The name Mireya is the #2,763 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 9,503 recorded births since 1951. This represents the 64.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 64.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,660 (71.0% percentile) for all time with 9,503 births since 1951.
Mireya first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1951 (first recorded for girls in 1951). Birth data for Mireya is available in 72 out of the 73 years between 1951 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Mireya reached its peak popularity in 1997, achieving the 52.6% percentile (ranked #410) with 297 births per million. The name was most common in 1997, with 297 births per million (ranked 52.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Mireya ranks #756 for girls (20.2% percentile) with 112 births per million, which is 37.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Mireya".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Mireya. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 81.8% confident that Mireya is pronounced as mih-RAY-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is mee-RAY-uh, at 18.2% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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