Miranda

93,203 people in the United States were counted with the surname Miranda in the 2020 census, making it the 330th most common in the country. That is about one person in 3,207.

By the numbers

People: 93,203
Rank: 330th
How common: 1 in 3,207
Per 100,000: 31.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Romance languages

From the roa (Spanish, Portuguese, Italian habitational surname) Miranda.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Miranda described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 80.7%
White, not Hispanic 11.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 4.8%
Black, not Hispanic 1.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Miranda

Carmen Miranda (1909–1955)Brazilian singer
Francisco de Miranda (1750–1816)Venezuelan military leader
Miranda (born 1984)Brazilian footballer
Lin-Manuel Miranda (born 1980)American songwriter and composer
Isa Miranda (1905–1982)Italian actress
Francisco de Sá de Miranda (1481–1558)Portuguese poet
Juan Miranda (born 2000)Spanish association football player
Roberto Miranda (born 1944)Brazilian footballer

People named Miranda with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Miranda

Also a first name

Miranda has been given to 115,168 American babies as a first name since 1881, peaking in 1995. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.