Girl · Occitan
Mirella
Say it: mee-REL-lah
Meaning
The Italian form of Provençal Mirèio, heroine of Frédéric Mistral's 1859 poem; probably linked to mirar 'to admire', but this is uncertain.
Uncertainseveral explanations, none settled.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1990s
In the United States
- 3,077 babies given this name since 1951
- At its height in 1997, about 1 in 10,700 girls
- 27 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
| French | Mireille |
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Famous bearers
- Mirella Freni, operatic soprano
Names worth a look
Where this comes from
- Well-known works of literature
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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