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 Mira is most popular
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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Masovian118 girls born+72%
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Lower Silesian50 girls born+64%
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Lesser Poland64 girls born+45%
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Pomeranian35 girls born+23%
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Silesian41 girls born−7%
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Opole8 girls born−10%
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Łódź22 girls born−10%
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Subcarpathian19 girls born−19%
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Podlaskie9 girls born−29%
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West Pomeranian10 girls born−39%
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Greater Poland22 girls born−47%
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Lublin9 girls born−55%
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Lubusz4 girls born−58%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian4 girls born−81%
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Świętokrzyskie2 girls born−81%
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Warmian-Masurian2 girls born−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