Mireille
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mireille is a given name, most frequently recorded in France. In Cameroon it is the 21st most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Occitan/French form related to mirer ‘to admire’; literary origin.
- CMCameroon1 in 745◐
- FRFrance1 in 873
- BEBelgium1 in 2.2K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈8.5K ●
- Sources
- 317 ●
- 1 in 3.5K ◐
across 8 countries
203K records
Official registry-verified
Netherlands
Meaning & origin●
Occitan/French form related to mirer ‘to admire’; literary origin
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #200 | 604,953 | 167K rec. | — | 130K | Mireille | 317 |
| BE Belgium | #256 | 6,896 | 7K rec. | — | 5 | Mireille | 95 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 4,894△ | 942 rec. | 1 in 3.5K | 4.9K | Mireille | 91 |
| CA Canada | — | 4,286 | 3.7K rec. | — | 1 | Mireille | 128 |
| US United States | — | 2,861 | 10K rec. | 1 in 116K | 2.9K | Mireille | 233 |
| CM Cameroon | #21 | 2,617 | 2.7K rec. | — | — | Mireille | 39 |
| MX Mexico | — | 1,579 | 1.1K rec. | — | 2 | Mireille | 66 |
| PE Peru | — | 983 | 849 rec. | — | — | Mireille | 21 |
| MQ Martinique | #156 | 936 | 8 rec. | — | 5 | Mireille | 6 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #73 | 762 | 771 rec. | — | 5 | Mireille | 24 |
| LB Lebanon | #864 | 742 | 627 rec. | — | — | Mireille | 35 |
| AR Argentina | — | 426 | 307 rec. | — | 4 | Mireille | 23 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French632K90%
- English26K4%
- Western Frisian8.2K1%
- Dutch8.2K1%
- Spanish5.8K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 632,435 | 90% |
| English | 26,228 | 4% |
| Western Frisian | 8,242 | 1% |
| Dutch | 8,150 | 1% |
| Spanish | 5,825 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Mireille is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Provençal name, from mirer 'to admire' or related roots.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
From Provencal Mireio. See main dictionary.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In French, Prénom provençal, lié au verbe « admirer »; fête non indiquée ici.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In French, Forme dérivée de Marie; origine hébraïque, « goutte de mer ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, Évoque le miracle, l’enfant inattendu; s’attache aussi à l’admiration et à un imaginaire de fusion maternelle. Fête/name-day non indiqué.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1920 | 5 |
| 1921 | 5 |
| 1922 | 5 |
| 1923 | 5 |
| 1924 | 5 |
| 1925 | 5 |
| 1926 | 5 |
| 1927 | 5 |
| 1928 | 5 |
| 1929 | 5 |
| 1930 | 5 |
| 1931 | 5 |
| 1932 | 5 |
| 1934 | 5 |
| 1935 | 5 |
| 1936 | 10 |
| 1937 | 10 |
| 1938 | 5 |
| 1939 | 5 |
| 1940 | 5 |
| 1941 | 15 |
| 1942 | 5 |
| 1943 | 5 |
| 1944 | 10 |
| 1945 | 10 |
| 1946 | 10 |
| 1947 | 15 |
| 1948 | 15 |
| 1949 | 15 |
| 1950 | 10 |
| 1951 | 15 |
| 1952 | 10 |
| 1953 | 20 |
| 1954 | 15 |
| 1955 | 25 |
| 1956 | 30 |
| 1957 | 35 |
| 1958 | 25 |
| 1959 | 30 |
| 1960 | 30 |
| 1961 | 25 |
| 1962 | 30 |
| 1963 | 30 |
| 1964 | 30 |
| 1965 | 25 |
| 1966 | 30 |
| 1967 | 25 |
| 1968 | 40 |
| 1969 | 35 |
| 1970 | 20 |
| 1971 | 25 |
| 1972 | 20 |
| 1973 | 20 |
| 1974 | 20 |
| 1975 | 20 |
| 1976 | 15 |
| 1977 | 15 |
| 1978 | 10 |
| 1979 | 10 |
| 1980 | 5 |
| 1981 | 5 |
| 1982 | 5 |
| 1984 | 5 |
| 1985 | 5 |
| 1986 | 5 |
| 1987 | 5 |
MQ INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 972 (Martinique) — 66 years between 1920–1987. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Mireille Perreyb. 1904FRFrench actress (1904–1991)
- Mireille Balinb. 1909FRFrench actress
- Mireille Darcb. 1938FRFrench actress and director (1938–2017)
- Mireille Delmas-Martyb. 1941FRFrench lawyer & academic (1941-2022)
- Mireille Mathieub. 1946FRFrench singer (born 1946)
- Orlanb. 1947FRnot in their usual nameFrench performance artist (born 1947)
- Mireille Ballestrazzib. 1954FRPresident of INTERPOL
- Mireille Soriab. 1970USAmerican film producer
- Mireille Enosb. 1975USAmerican actress
- Cœur de pirateb. 1989CAnot in their usual nameCanadian musician
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●
Attested in 68 sources across 41 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2009 | 130K | #2,929 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 4.9K | #421 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 3.3K | #959 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.9K | #5,798 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 260 | #4,334 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 188 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 185 | #26,570 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 160 | #10,765 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 157 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 149 | #5,093 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 146 | #6,006 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 121 | #4,827 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 484 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Mireille?
- We estimate roughly 8.5 thousand people bear Mireille (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Mireille have the most bearers?
- Mireille is most frequently recorded in France, where it is most often spelled mireille.
- How common is Mireille compared with other names?
- In France, Mireille is the 200th most common given name of 711,207 given names recorded there.
- Is Mireille a male or female name?
- Mireille 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 Mireille mean?
- Recorded meaning: Occitan/French form related to mirer ‘to admire’; literary origin
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Mireille” — the 200th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.