Given name & surname
Mirta
“crowned with thorns”
Mirta is used as a given name and a surname. One Spanish interpretation is “crowned with thorns.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Spanish interpretation is “crowned with thorns.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Spanish.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1931. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Mirta through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 860
- 0 boys · 860 girls
- Most popular year
- 1963
- 30 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 2009. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 30 in 1963. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 4,942 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.
Mirta’s family of names
Mirta has a related form in Mirtha. Mirta has a related form in Meerta. Mirta has a related form in Meertha.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 9
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Myrtleequivalent
- Mertleequivalent
- Myrtaequivalent
- Mirtheequivalent
- Mirteequivalent
- ΜύρταGreek
- Myrtheequivalent
- ΜυρτώGreek
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People named Mirta
- Mirta Díaz-Balartfirst wife of Fidel Castro (1928–2024)
- Mirta MillerArgentine actressborn 1948
- Mirta Acuña de BaravalleArgentinian human rights activist1925–2024
- Mirta MassaArgentine modelborn 1947
- Mirta AguirreCuban poet, novelist, journalist, activist (1912-1980)
- Mirta WonsArgentine actressborn 1965
- Mirta YáñezCuban writerborn 1947
- Mirta Roses PeriagoArgentine epidemiologistborn 1945
- Mirta NúñezCuban-Spanish historian
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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