Meranda
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables.
Babies a year
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no recent records
Rarity
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among names in use
US popularity
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outside the top 1000
UK popularity
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outside the ONS list
Meranda by the numbers
Its American peak was 186 babies in 1994, making it a 1990s name.
What we can tell you about Meranda
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Meranda. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Mirandaadmirable or worthy of admiration934 in the US (2017)
- Marandaadmirable, worthy of admiration; form of miranda15 in the US (2017)
- Myrandaadmirable; a form of Miranda11 in the US (2017)
- Melaniadark, black283 in the US (2017)
- Melindahoney; a blend of Melissa and Belinda128 in the US (2017)
- Melanadark or black; a form of Melanie13 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Meranda
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