Miranda
About 115,168 American babies have been named Miranda since 1881, most of them around 1995. In 2025 it ranked 654th. About 112,000 Mirandas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 30.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Miranda boys named Miranda
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 115,168
- Estimated living today
- 112,000
- Median age today
- 30
- Peak year
- 1995
- Best rank
- 57th
- Rank in 2025
- 654th
- First recorded
- 1881
- Girls / boys
- 114,979 / 189
How old the living Mirandas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 115,168 babies given the name since 1881, about 112,000 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 19,000 of them are children and 840 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1995 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a coined name, from Latin
for a character in The Tempest; feminine.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Mirandas
- Miranda Cosgrove (born 1993)American actress and producer
- Miranda Kerr (born 1983)Australian model
- Miranda Richardson (born 1958)British actress
- Miranda (born 1984)Brazilian footballer
- Miranda Otto (born 1967)Australian actress
- Miranda Lambert (born 1983)American country singer
- Miranda July (born 1974)American performance artist, musician and writer
- Miranda Hart (born 1972)English comedian
People named Miranda with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Miranda is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Miranda is most concentrated in Alaska (2.3×), New Mexico (2.0×), Nevada (1.9×), Texas (1.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1995
The most popular girls’ names the year Miranda peaked:
Miranda elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italy girls | Miranda | 1,287 | — |
| Sweden girls | Miranda | 1,276 | 77th |
| England and Wales girls | Miranda | 1,249 | 313th |
| France girls | Miranda | 740 | 1,085th |
| Switzerland girls | Miranda | 176 | 359th |
| Scotland girls | Miranda | 169 | 249th |
| Norway girls | Miranda | 160 | 390th |
| Ireland girls | Miranda | 153 | 272nd |
| Poland girls | Miranda | 141 birth registrations | 222nd |
| Belgium girls | Miranda | 38 | 869th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Miranda: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Miranda | 133 | 0.011% | 284th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Miranda | 34 | 0.008% | 397th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Miranda | 9 | 0.014% | 110th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Miranda is most concentrated in Zurich, where 0.01% of children were given it – 40 of them.
Miranda: rank by region
In 1995, Miranda was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Miranda | 540 | 7 |
In 2025, Miranda was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mazowieckie | Miranda | 326 | 2 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Miranda among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Miranda | 16,613 | 21,020 |
| Finland girls | Miranda | 451 | 1,133 |
| the Netherlands boys | Miranda | — | 163 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Miranda lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 3,261 women called Miranda were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burgos | Miranda | 60 | 0.331 | 326 |
| Salamanca | Miranda | 44 | 0.260 | 418 |
| Rioja, La | Miranda | 41 | 0.248 | 421 |
| Asturias | Miranda | 122 | 0.230 | 452 |
| Soria | Miranda | 10 | 0.225 | 423 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Miranda | 121 | 0.218 | 511 |
Listed in 50 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 2 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Miranda against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.