Given name
Mirjana
Mirjana is a feminine given name from Hebrew. It is used in Serbo-Croatian.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1967. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Mirjana is a variant of Miriam. The history of Miriam gives this family its wider story. Miriam appears in biblical tradition, giving it a longstanding religious and cultural context.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Mirjana through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 112
- 0 boys · 112 girls
- Most popular year
- 1980
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2003. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 10 in 1980. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,364 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Mirjana’s family of names
In Serbo-Croatian usage, Mirjana has an affectionate form in Mira. Mirjana has a related form in Miriam. In Macedonian usage, Mirjana is a Roman-alphabet rendering of Мирјана.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Mirjana
- Mirjana Lučić-BaroniCroatian tennis playerborn 1982
- Mirjana MarkovićSerbian academic, journalist and politician1942–2019
- Mirjana KaranovićSerbian actressborn 1957
- Mirjana JokovićSerbian actressborn 1967
- Mirjana OgnjenovićCroatian handball playerborn 1953
- Mirjana GrossCroatian historian (1922–2012)
- Mirjana ĐuricaSerbian handball playerborn 1961
- Mirjana Spoljaric EggerSwiss diplomat of Croatian originborn 1971
- Mirjana MarićSerbian chess playerborn 1970
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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