Miranda
Miranda is ranked 622nd among girls in 2024 (478 births). Its best rank was 57th, in 1995.
- Rank in 2024
- #622down 47 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 4780.03% of girls
- Peak year
- 19955,978 births
- Best rank
- #57in 1995
- Since 1881
- 114,541people given the name
The story in the numbers
114,541 girls have been named Miranda in the United States since 1881, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1995, with 5,978 births — 0.34% of all girls recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 239 → 622).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1995, and the 1990s alone account for 37%. It has spent 73 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 9 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Miranda | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 70 | |
| 1890s | 64 | |
| 1900s | 36 | |
| 1910s | 84 | |
| 1920s | 87 | |
| 1930s | 42 | |
| 1940s | 157 | |
| 1950s | 795 | |
| 1960s | 1,526 | |
| 1970s | 8,122 | |
| 1980s | 22,716 | |
| 1990s | 42,224 | |
| 2000s | 23,739 | |
| 2010s | 12,250 | |
| 2020s | 2,629 |
In 1995, its biggest year
Miranda was the 57th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1995 were Jessica, Ashley, Emily, Samantha and Sarah. See all of 1995.
Names that rose and fell with Miranda
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Andrianapeak 1993
- Keyanapeak 1994
- Carlypeak 1995
- Kionapeak 1995
- Keyonapeak 1994
- Angelicapeak 1996
- Rebekkahpeak 1993
- Brookepeak 1996
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.