Mirabai is from the Sanskrit mīrā (sea, ocean, or "wonderful" in Rajasthani) + bāī (Hindi honorific for a respected woman). Mirabai (c. 1498-1547) — *Rajput princess and Hindu mystic poet-saint of the bhakti (devotional) movement; her 1,300+ devotional songs (bhajans) to Krishna are among the most-sung devotional poetry in the Hindi-speaking world today. Married into the Sisodia royal family of Mewar; widowed young; refused to commit sati (widow self-immolation) and devoted her life to Krishna; her in-laws repeatedly tried to poison her. "Mere to Giridhar Gopal" (My only beloved is Krishna) is among the most-recorded Indian devotional songs of the 20th century. Mirabai Chanu (born 1994) — Indian Olympic weightlifter; silver medalist at Tokyo 2020 (49 kg category) — the first Indian woman weightlifter to win an Olympic medal since Karnam Malleswari in 2000; Padma Shri (2018); Khel Ratna (2021). National Film Award-winning 1979 Meera film by Gulzar starred Hema Malini*.
Featured throughout Hindi devotional music and modern Indian sport.
Mirabai 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.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Mirabai reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.