Mira
A Slavic name at root, sharing the "mir" element with Miroslava and carrying the sense of peace. Still rare enough that most Poles have never met one, though it's given a little more often now than a decade back.
Mira Pronunciation
Mira is pronounced MEE-rah (/ˈmira/).
What Mira means
Where Mira comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Mira comes from the old Slavic root mir, which carried two meanings at once: peace, and the world itself. Polish still keeps both. The word pokój names a quiet room and a truce between nations, while świat means the world, so a short name ended up holding a wide idea.
You can hear the fuller shape in Mirosława, the variant form from which Mira is drawn. There mir joins sława, glory, and the pair reads as something close to glorious peace. The masculine Mirosław is built from the same two pieces. In a school register, Mira might sit a line above a Mirka, the everyday diminutive that trims the name shorter still.
The meaning stays near the surface here. Mira is peace, plainly, and pokój in Polish.
When Mira celebrates name day
Mira appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 21 September.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
How many people are named Mira
1 in 14677 women in Poland is named Mira. 1,536 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #792 among female names.
Mira's popularity over time
63 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #312 among newborns. It is making a comeback after a low in 2003.
Where parents choose Mira
Mira is most popular in Masovian, 72% above the national average (118 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Lower Silesian (+64%) and Lesser Poland (+45%). It is least common in Warmian-Masurian and Kuyavian-Pomeranian, 86% and 81% below average respectively.
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Masovian
+72%1 in 3,002 babies
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Lower Silesian
+64%1 in 3,143 babies
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Lesser Poland
+45%1 in 3,546 babies
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Warmian-Masurian
−86%1 in 35,897 babies
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian
−81%1 in 27,345 babies
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Holy Cross
−81%1 in 27,717 babies
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Masovian+72% 118 born1 in 3,002 babies+72%
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Lower Silesian+64% 50 born1 in 3,143 babies+64%
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Lesser Poland+45% 64 born1 in 3,546 babies+45%
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Pomeranian+23% 35 born1 in 4,209 babies+23%
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Silesian−7% 41 born1 in 5,551 babies−7%
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Opole−10% 8 born1 in 5,762 babies−10%
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Łódź−10% 22 born1 in 5,760 babies−10%
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Subcarpathian−19% 19 born1 in 6,346 babies−19%
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Podlaskie−29% 9 born1 in 7,310 babies−29%
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West Pomeranian−39% 10 born1 in 8,443 babies−39%
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Greater Poland−47% 22 born1 in 9,784 babies−47%
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Lublin−55% 9 born1 in 11,408 babies−55%
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Lubusz−58% 4 born1 in 12,414 babies−58%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian−81% 4 born1 in 27,345 babies−81%
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Holy Cross−81% 2 born1 in 27,717 babies−81%
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Warmian-Masurian−86% 2 born1 in 35,897 babies−86%
Mira as a middle name
Mira is a first name for 1,536 women in Poland and a middle name for another 507, a 75/25 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 309th, between Jarosława (542) and Cristina (505).
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#307 Claudia545
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#308 Jarosława542
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#309 Mira507
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#310 Cristina505
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#311 Larysa499