Mireille (first name)
Mireille is a feminine French given name .
Origin and meaning
The name derives from the French title or the title heroine of the Occitan poem Mirèio published in 1859 by the poet and linguist Frédéric Mistral . Mistral's poem and Gounod's implementation as an opera in 1864 popularized the use of the name as a first name.
Mistral himself commented on the question of whether the first name already existed before the publication of his poem, in that he often heard this first name in his youth. After Mistral, the first name is derived like Marie from Miriam and represents a Provençalization of the latter.
Another interpretation derives the first name from the Occitan verb mirar (Eng .: admire).
variants
- Mirela (Albanian)
- Mireia (Catalan)
- Mirela, Mirica (Croatian)
- Mirella (Italian)
- Mirela (Polish)
- Mirela (Romanian)
Well-known namesake
- Mireille Astore (* 1961), Lebanese-Australian artist and author
- Mireille Balin (1909–1968), French actress
- Mireille Ballestrazzi (* 1954), French policewoman
- Mireille Bousquet-Mélou (* 1967), French mathematician
- Mireille Darc (1938-2017), French actress
- Mireille Delannoy , French presenter
- Mireille Delunsch (* 1962), French opera singer
- Mireille Drapel (* around 1950), Swiss badminton player
- Mireille Dumont (1901–1990), French politician
- Mireille Enos (* 1975), American actress
- Mireille Gigandet-Donders (* 1974), Swiss athlete
- Mireille Gros (* 1954), Swiss artist
- Mireille Guiliano (* 1946), French manager and author
- Mireille Hartuch (1906–1996), French singer, composer and actress
- Mireille Knoll (1932–2018), French survivor of the Holocaust
- Mireille Lagacé (* 1935), Canadian harpsichordist, organist, pianist and music teacher
- Mireille Laurent (1938-2015), French badminton player
- Mireille Mathieu (* 1946), French singer
- Mireille d'Ornano (* 1951), French politician
- Mireille Zindel (* 1973), Swiss writer
Web links
- Mireille est-il un prénom? , September 6, 1913, Le Figaro