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Myranda

Gender
Girl
Say it
mih-RAN-da
Origin
Latin
US rank, 2025
#14,937 for girls

Myranda is a girls' name of Latin origin, meaning “worthy of admiration”. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).

What does Myranda mean?

Latin: spelling of Miranda

“worthy of admiration”

Miranda was coined by Shakespeare for Prospero's daughter in The Tempest.

Is Myranda a girl's or a boy's name?

Myranda is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Myranda in the US?

Rank in 2025
14,937th among girls
Babies in 2025
5 about 1 in 320,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to call too few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Myranda, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 15,083rd. Its busiest year was 1995, with 350 girls. It first appears in the records in 1968.

Half of all the girls named Myranda in the US since 1880 were born between 1992 and 2001, the years shaded on the chart below.

1968Busiest: 350 in 19952025
Myranda in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20255#14,937
20240–
20230–
20227#12,237
20210–
20205#15,083
20196#13,793
20188#11,422
201711#9,337
201613#8,390
201514#8,004
201424#5,454
201335#4,154
201243#3,643
201147#3,406
201057#2,975
200967#2,704
200884#2,318
200786#2,257
200691#2,127
2005107#1,818
2004120#1,613
200390#2,000
2002129#1,479
2001155#1,265
2000185#1,102
1999190#1,059
1998259#822
1997303#708
1996282#749
1995350#624
1994305#689
1993222#872
1992217#900
1991201#944
1990141#1,200
198995#1,503
198874#1,720
198771#1,698
198657#1,931
198554#1,996
198439#2,420
198351#1,992
198259#1,822
198155#1,935
198045#2,218
197945#2,187
197839#2,305
197720#3,611
197624#3,001
197522#3,155
197427#2,683
19738#6,078
19720–
19710–
19700–
19690–
19686#6,244

Nicknames for Myranda

Names like Myranda

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Myranda: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/myranda, updated 20 October 2026.