Entry № 6917 · Catalan origin

Mireia Mireia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ mee-RAY-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Catalan
Meaning
"To admire, wonder"
Syllables
2
First recorded
1859 (literary)

A name that means "to admire, wonder".

Mireia is the Catalan form of the Provençal Mirèio — derived from the Occitan mirar, meaning "to admire" or "to wonder at." The name was popularised by Frédéric Mistral's 1859 epic poem Mirèio, written in Provençal — for which he received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1904.

Mireia is widely used in Catalonia, Spain, and parts of southern France. It is rising slowly in Western records. Three lyrical syllables and a Nobel-laureate-attributed origin.

To admire, wonder — a Catalan name.

The name in its native script.

Mireia
Transliteration
Mireia
Pronunciation
/ miˈɾɛ.jə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Mireia stands.

Mireia 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.

Mireias before her.

Real people
Mireia Belmonte
Spanish Olympic gold medal swimmer.
born 1990
In fiction
Mirèio
Heroine of Frédéric Mistral's 1859 Nobel-prize-winning epic poem.
1859 poem

Names connected to Mireia.

The number behind Mireia.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Mireia reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.