Miray

Spellings & scripts●

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Miray is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• German given name7.6K records spelled Miray8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Germany, Austria, Netherlands, United States

  Languages: German, English, Western Frisian

  Also written Mîray, Miräy

41 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Miray is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Quechua, generation, multiplication, family

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In crs, wall

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Ergül Miray Şahinb. 1989TRTurkish actress
• Miray Güneyb. 1997TRTurkish physician (born 1997)
• Miray Danerb. 1999TRTurkish actor (born 1999)
• Miray Akayb. 2000TRTurkish actor (born 2000)
• Miray Balotub. 2001TRTurkish basketball player (born 2001)
• Miray Isikb. 2002TRTurkish association football player (born 2002)
• Miray BekböletTRTurkish environmental engineer

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 254 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Miray?

We estimate roughly 1.5 thousand people bear Miray (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.

In which country does Miray have the most bearers?

Miray is most frequently recorded in Türkiye, where it is most often spelled miray.

How common is Miray compared with other names?

In Türkiye, Miray is the 651st most common given name of 294,597 given names recorded there.

Is Miray a male or female name?

Miray is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Miray mean?

Recorded meaning: Ay gibi ışık saçan bey.