Details for the forename Mira

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Mira (female)


Diminutive for:	Casimira (F) Miroslava (F)
Pet Name(s):	Mirka (F)
Pet Name for:	Dobromira (F) Mirosława (F)
Can be spelt:	Myra (F)

Source(s):	The Oxford Names Companion, OUP "Scottish Forenames" - Donald Whyte, FGH, FSG
Notes:	1. Slavonic feminine diminutive for names beginning with Mir-, e.g. Miroslava. or containing the element -mir- meaning "great, famous". Mira may also be a Slavonic given name in its own right. 2. English spelling variant of Myra [q.v.].