Mirela is a Southern and Eastern European feminine given name with a Latin origin, cognate to Mirella.

It is known as "the musical name" because it is made up of the notes of the scale: Mi, Re, and La. Its origin is the Italian version of the French and Occitan given names Mireille or Mirèlha, related to the Occitan verb “mirar”, meaning "to look, to admire" which derives from the Latin "admīror", that means "admire, to respect, to appreciate".^{[citation needed]}

People

Notable persons with that name include:

• Mirela Cabero García (born 1990), Spanish singer known mononymously as Mirela
• Mirela Brekalo (born 1956), Croatian actress
• Mirela Delibegovic, British virologist originally from Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Mirela Demireva (born 1989), Bulgarian high jumper
• Mirela Dulgheru (born 1966), Romanian-Turkish Olympian long jumper
• Mirela Holy (born 1971), Croatian politician
• Mirela Maniani (born 1976), Greek Olympian track and field athlete
• Mirela Nichita-Pașca (born 1985), Romanian handballer
• Mirela Roznoveanu (born 1947), Romanian-American literary critic, writer, and journalist
• Mirela Rupic (born 1967), American costume and fashion designer
• Mirela Țugurlan (born 1979), Romanian artistic gymnast

Ships

MV Mirela, a Canadian ferry in service 1986-87