How rare is the name Mirta?

4,942 people in the United States have the first name Mirta, about 1 in 61,115. It ranks #3,943 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 2 others.

first name

MIRTA

#3,943

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,942
About
1 in 61,115
This common or more
83.3%
Who bears it

Of the 4,942 people named Mirta, 96.2% reported their origin as Hispanic or Latino and 2.8% as White. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Mirta peaked in 1963, when 30 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19312009
Peak year
1963
Births that year
30
In 2009
5 ▼83%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 860 babies have been given the name since 1931. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Mirta by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1960s, when it ranked #4,029. The largest share of babies named Mirta, 37.4%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1930s#10,55210
1940s#9,29820
1950s#4,608153
1960s#4,029232
1970s#5,250206
1980s#9,967101
1990s#12,749103
2000s#27,45735
Silent Generation 1928–451.7%
Baby boom 1946–6434.1%
Generation X 1965–8037.4%
Millennials 1981–9619.8%
Generation Z 1997–127%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Exactly as common as Mirta

2 other first names also have 4,942 people.

#3,943 Joselin · 4,942#3,943 Reanna · 4,942

Either side of Mirta

#3,942 Kyndall · 4,950#3,943 Joselin · 4,942#3,943 Reanna · 4,942#3,946 Jaeden · 4,941

Spelled almost the same

One first name in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Mirta, most common first.

#4,630 Mirtha · 3,960

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