Family name origins & meanings
- Muslim (common in Pakistan, Bangladesh, and India) : from a title of Persian origin, a short form of Arabic Amir ‘prince’, ‘commander’.
- Polish : from a short form of any of various Old Polish personal names containing the element mir ‘peace’, ‘quiet’, ‘esteem’, for example Mirosław or Jaromir.
- Catalan : patronymic from Mir, a medieval personal name of Germanic origin (see Miro).
- French : variant of Mire 1.