Miranda

A girls’ name of Latin origin, meaning admirable or worthy of admiration.

Babies a year
934
the US, 2017
Rarity
Uncommon
among names in use
US popularity
#656
down from #622
UK popularity
#3035
8 babies

How Miranda has moved

US popularity rank, 2015–2025. Lower is more popular.
#222#466#710201520202025#656

View as table
YearUS rank
2015#278
2016#276
2017#344
2018#367
2019#446
2020#541
2021#588
2022#546
2023#576
2024#622
2025#656

Miranda by the numbers

In 2025, 8 babies in England and Wales were named Miranda. In the US, 934 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

For the size of the two countries, it is given far more often in the US than in England and Wales.

Its American peak was 5,978 babies in 1995, so it is a 1990s name that has since fallen a long way.

At its height, in 1995, about 1 in 320 American girls born that year was called Miranda.

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Miranda as a share of American girls born, 1880 to 2008, at five year intervals. Source: US Social Security Administration.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Miranda. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Marandaadmirable, worthy of admiration; form of miranda15 in the US (2017)
  • Myrandaadmirable; a form of Miranda11 in the US (2017)
  • Mirana6 in the US (2017)
  • Meranda
  • Milaniadark, black; a spelling variant of Melania205 in the US (2017)
  • Mirnamyrrh or aromatic resin26 in the US (2017)

Other names that mean honour

Like Miranda, each of these has honour in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.

  • Aryanoble; honorable; aryan2,201 in the US (2017)
  • Amandaworthy of love; fit to be loved954 in the US (2017)
  • Antoniapriceless; worthy of praise91 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Aryananoble or honorable; a form of Ariana206 in the US (2017)
  • Honorhonor, integrity, virtue203 in the US (2017)
  • Aaryanoble, honorable; respelling of Arya56 in England and Wales (2025)

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