Girl · #6,000 in 2026

Mirel

Yield10 Bioscience is a company developing new technologies to achieve improvements in crop yield to enhance global food security.

  • Romanian
Current Rank
#6,000
Peak Rank
#4,531 (2016)
Total Babies
715
5-Yr Trend
-3%
1976
First Year
2026
Last Year
2016
Peak Year
#4531
Peak Rank
715
Total Count
46
Years Active

Meaning & Origin of Mirel

What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.

Yield10 Bioscience is a company developing new technologies to achieve improvements in crop yield to enhance global food security.

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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)

  • Romanian
Origin & history
Founded in 1992, with the help of a licensing agreement with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Metabolix, Inc. is a bioscience company with headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts . Metabolix provides sustainable solutions to the plastic, chemical and energy industries. Oliver Peoples, Ph.D., and Anthony Sinskey, Ph.D., co-founded Metabolix after work at the (MIT) that identified the elementary methods and means for engineering polyhydroxyalkanoates production in plants and bacteria, thus making them biodegradable. In early 2017, Metabolix became Yield10 Bioscience, its crop resear

The Story of Mirel

The earliest SSA record of Mirel as a baby girl name dates back to 1976, when 5 babies received it. 2016 was its biggest year on record, with 31 newborns named Mirel — #4,531 in the national rankings. About 32% of every Mirel on record arrived during the 2010s, its defining decade. As of 2026, Mirel ranks #6,000 for baby girls with 20 births, holding steady (-3%). All told, over 715 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1970s to the 2020s.

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Names that sound like Mirel

Phonetically similar names — useful when Mirel is the vibe but a different syllable count or letter feel might suit better. Linked entries have a profile on Peek a Name.

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Frequently Asked Questions about Mirel

What does the name Mirel mean?
Yield10 Bioscience is a company developing new technologies to achieve improvements in crop yield to enhance global food security.
What is the origin of the name Mirel?
Mirel has roots in the following cultural and linguistic traditions: Romanian.
How popular is Mirel in 2026?
In 2026, Mirel ranks #6,000 among girls' names in the U.S., with 20 babies given the name that year.
When was Mirel most popular?
Mirel reached its peak popularity in 2016, ranking #4,531 that year with 31 babies given the name.
In which U.S. states is Mirel most popular?
Mirel has historically been most popular in New Jersey, New York. Rankings vary year to year, but these states show the strongest concentration of births named Mirel.
Is Mirel a unisex name?
In U.S. Social Security records, Mirel is primarily a girl's name. We don't have meaningful data for it as a boy's name.
What names go well with Mirel?
Names that share a similar style or popularity range with Mirel include Adanna, Skilar, Aubriel. These pairings are based on rank proximity and naming era in U.S. data.

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About the name Mirel

Mirel is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1976 and has accumulated 715 births in the dataset. Mirel's peak popularity came in 2016 when it ranked #4,531. Use the chart and map above to compare Mirel's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.

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Data sources

  • Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
  • Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
  • Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
  • Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
  • Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .

Peek a Name aggregates and presents the above data for informational purposes. Statistical predictions and external attributions are clearly labelled where shown; we make no guarantee of accuracy beyond what each source provides.