Entry № 6902 · Romanian origin

Mioara Mioara — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ mee-oh-AH-rah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Romanian
Meaning
"Little ewe-lamb"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Romanian)

A name that means "little ewe-lamb".

Mioara is the Romanian word for a young female lamb — diminutive of mioa (ewe). The Romanian folk ballad Miorița (The Little Ewe-Lamb) is considered the work of Romanian folk poetry.

Mioara is widely used in Romania.

Little ewe-lamb. The Romanian ballad.

The name in its native script.

Mioara
Transliteration
Mioara
Pronunciation
/ miːˈoʊ.ə.rə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Mioara stands.

Mioara does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Mioaras before her.

Real people

In fiction
Miorița
Romanian folk ballad.
Romanian folklore

Names connected to Mioara.

The number behind Mioara.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Mioara reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.