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Boy · Germanic
Miró
Say it: mee-ROH
Meaning
Germanic, probably from mir 'famous'; the Suevic king Miro of Galicia bore the same name.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
Used by several 9th- and 10th-century Catalan counts.
Its wave through time
Rare in the records
In the United States
- 177 babies given this name since 1915
- At its height in 2020, about 1 in 106,700 boys
- 16 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
Famous bearers
- Miro, Suevic king of Galicia
Names worth a look
Where this comes from
- Royal and noble genealogies
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
Meanings and histories are compiled from the study of names and their languages and checked by a second review.
Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.