Mira (given name) explained
| “Dimayra” |
| Pronunciation: | ‘’Di-MIR-ah |
| Gender: | Female |
| Origin: | Hindu, Albanian, Hebrew, Latin, Sanskrit, Slavic, Indian, Korean, Finnish, Japanese, Turkish |
| Meaning: | "peaceful", "amazing", "beautiful", "peace", "prosperous","soft like velvet rose", "ocean","sea","billionaire","princess","happy","famous" |
| Related Names: | Miranda, Myra, Meera, Mireliana, Miriam, Mila |
Mira is a feminine given name with varying meanings. In the Romance languages, it is related to the Latin words for 'wonder' and 'wonderful'.[1] [2] In Slavic languages, it means 'peace' and is often used as part of a longer name, such as Miroslava (masculine form: Miroslav), Mirjana, or Sławomira (masculine form: Sławomir). In Albanian, it means 'goodness' or 'kindness'. In Sanskrit, it means 'ocean', 'sea', 'limit', or 'boundary'.[3] It is sometimes also a short form of other given names.
People with the given name include:
- Mira Aroyo (born 1977), Bulgarian musician
- Mira Awad (born 1975), Palestinian-Arab actress and musician
- Mira Bai or Meera (1498–1547), Hindu mystical singer and poet
- Mira Bellwether (born 1981/1982), author of the 'zine Fucking Trans Women
- Mirjana Mira Banjac (born 1929), Serbian actress
- Mira Craig (born 1982), Norwegian rhythm and blues singer and songwriter
- Mira Dancy (born 1979), American painter
- Míra Emberovics (born 1988), Hungarian handball player
- Mira Furlan (1955–2021), Croatian actress and singer
- Mira Gojak (born 1963), Australian artist
- Mira Golubović (born 1976), Serbian retired volleyball player
- Mira Gonzalez (born 1992), American poet
- Mira Hoteit (born 2002), Lebanese footballer
- Mira Konçi (born 1973), Albanian singer and songwriter
- Mira Kunnasluoto (born 1974), Finnish singer
- Mira Kuś (born 1958), Polish poet and journalist
- Mira Lehr (1934–2023), American multimedia artist
- Mira Lesmana (born 1964), Indonesian songwriter, film director and producer
- Mira Leung (born 1989), Canadian retired figure skater
- Mira Mihelič (1912-1985), Slovene writer and translator
- Mira Murati (born 1988), CTO of OpenAI
- Mira Nair (born 1957), Indian-American film director
- Mira Nakashima (born 1942), Japanese-American architect and furniture maker
- Mira Petrović (born 1956), Serbian politician
- Mira Shaib, Lebanese direcgor
- Mira Sorvino (born 1967), American actress
- Mira Stupica (1923–2016), Serbian actress
- Mira Topić (born 1983), Croatian volleyball player
- Mira W. (Widjaja) (born 1951), Indonesian author
- Mira Zimińska (1901-1997), Polish actress
- Mira (born 1992), Hong Kong YouTuber
Fictional characters
- Mira Kano, a character from the manga and Netflix series Alice in Borderland
- Mira (ミラ), a character from She Professed Herself Pupil of the Wise Man
- , a character from the anime Godannar
- , a character from the manga series
- , a character from the anime Sekkō Boys
- , a character from the manga series Koisuru Asteroid
- Mira Nova, a character from and Buzz Lightyear of Star Command
- , a character from Trinity Seven
- , a character from the manga series Dimension W
- Mira, a character from
- Mira (Encantadia), a character in the video game Encantadia
- Mira, a character in The Last Legion
- Mira, title character of the Disney Jr video series Mira, Royal Detective
- Mira (Star Wars), a character in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
- Mira, a character from the video game Zero Time Dilemma
- Mira Troy, a character in the 2022 film, Enola Holmes 2
See also
Notes and References
- https://books.google.com/books?id=JDZGAAAAYAAJ&q=mira&pg=PA539 F. P. Leverett, A New and Copious Lexicon of the Latin Language (Boston: Rice & Kendell, 1853), p. 539.
- Bruce Lansky, 100,000+ Baby Names (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2006).
- https://books.google.com/books?id=7P8cAAAAYAAJ Maneka Gandhi, The Penguin Book of Hindi Names (Penguin Books India, 1992)
