Miri is a female first name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Miri is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 girls have been named Miri. In the SmartGenius ranking, Miri is #3,819 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Miri.
In fact, the name Miri did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Miri seemed to be more popular than ever in 2022. Although the name never ranked higher than #2,862, 50 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Miri, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Miri was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
The first name Miri is a true rarity among all women and girls currently living in the United States – only 323 Americans in total bear this name. And these 323 women are located in only three states: California, New Jersey and New York (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 women with this name in the state. So, if your name is Miri and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most girls and women named Miri in relation to it’s female population is New York. And yet even there, only one in 41,149 women would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Miri.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a quite popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 8.5% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A and S are more common for girls' names.
With four letters, the name Miri is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 8.5% of all girls' names start with an M, this initial letter occurs nearly 2.5-times as often as all 26 letters on average – and the most common one of all the girls’ names starting with M is Mary.
If your name is Miri and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Miri, you can simply say:
Mouse
Igloo
Rocket
Igloo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Miri
Miri
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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R
I
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
M
I
R
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Miri sounds like this:
