Mireille is the French form of the Provençal Mirèio — derived from the Occitan mirar, meaning "to admire" or "to wonder at." The name was popularised by Frédéric Mistral's 1859 epic poem Mirèio, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1904.
Mireille is most famous in French as the name of the singer Mireille Mathieu (born 1946), one of the best-selling French artists in history. The pronunciation is closer to "mee-RAY" with a soft ending — the L's are silent.
Mireille does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Mireille reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.