The English name Miranda derived from the Latin ‘mirandus’ meaning ‘admirable, wonderful’. The name was created by Shakespeare for the heroine in his play ‘The Tempest’ (1611).
Miranda is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
The name Miranda isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Miranda ranks 314. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 6 were named Miranda. In the entire USA, approximately 111,107 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Miranda. That is 0.03 % of all living Americans.
The English name Miranda derived from the Latin ‘mirandus’ meaning ‘admirable, wonderful’. The name was created by Shakespeare for the heroine in his play ‘The Tempest’ (1611).
Miranda was a very.. rare name before the 20th century.
#55 - this is the highest position Miranda has ever reached. Not many names manage to reach such a high popularity in even one of the 140+ years of records. The last time Miranda reached this top spot at the end of the past century in 1995 when 5,984newborn girls were named Miranda. But as our statistics show, Miranda hasn't always been a popular name: in some years of record, most recently in the year 1935, it was given to newborns not at all or at least less than 5 times (a name is only included in the official statistics only if it is given at least 5 times in a year). Nevertheless, the name Miranda has accompanied people in this country for a long time. It turns out that this name fits very well in our modern times. From zero to hero – even if its peak is in the past, Miranda has become a fashionable name after all.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Miranda was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, 561 newborn girls were given the name Miranda, making this first name #498. Towards the end of the last century, the name had a real flight of fancy and still captivates many people today − just like the music of the 80s. So, the chances to meet a young Miranda are still quite high.
The name Miranda may not be in the top rankings of the most popular girls’ names, but it is one of the few female given names, along with only 536 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Miranda is apparently especially popular in Alaska. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular women’s names here either, one in 533 women in Alaska is called Miranda. In total, that’s 357 women who feel addressed when the name Miranda is shouted loudly across Alaska and who ensure that their name makes it to #158 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common female names in this nice state. If you asked all women in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Miranda as the answer a total of 111,107 times. This places Miranda at #304 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular women’s names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living women across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Miranda as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a quite popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 8.5% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A and S are more common for girls' names.
With seven letters, the name Miranda has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 8.5% of all girls' names start with an M, this initial letter occurs nearly 2.5-times as often as all 26 letters on average – and the most common one of all the girls’ names starting with M is Mary.
If your name is Miranda and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Miranda, you can simply say:
Mouse
Igloo
Rocket
Apple
Nut
Dinosaur
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Miranda
Miranda
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Miranda sounds like this:
