Maranda
Maranda was given to 5 girls in 2025, #16,399 among girls’ names; 11,436 Americans have been recorded with it since 1886 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 11,000 Americans named Maranda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 29 and 43.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maranda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Maranda?
#16,399 among girls’ names, 2025
Maranda fell from #5,065 in 2015 to #16,399 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 15.1 to 3.1 per million.
616 babies in 1994, the peak
Maranda peaked in 1994, when 616 girls were given it, #407 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are under 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,399 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 5 | #16,800 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,526 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 7 | #13,005 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,309 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,505 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,294 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,698 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 28 | #4,937 | 0.02 |
| 2015 | 27 | #5,065 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (97)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 37 | #4,075 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 52 | #3,152 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 59 | #2,927 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 57 | #3,004 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 65 | #2,743 | 0.04 |
| 2009 | 82 | #2,367 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 96 | #2,118 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 119 | #1,798 | 0.06 |
| 2006 | 121 | #1,730 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 156 | #1,385 | 0.08 |
| 2004 | 167 | #1,285 | 0.09 |
| 2003 | 163 | #1,281 | 0.09 |
| 2002 | 189 | #1,110 | 0.11 |
| 2001 | 240 | #926 | 0.13 |
| 2000 | 254 | #867 | 0.14 |
| 1999 | 302 | #741 | 0.17 |
| 1998 | 359 | #642 | 0.20 |
| 1997 | 417 | #564 | 0.24 |
| 1996 | 424 | #550 | 0.24 |
| 1995 | 614 | #424 | 0.35 |
| 1994 | 616 | #407 | 0.34 |
| 1993 | 440 | #543 | 0.24 |
| 1992 | 498 | #492 | 0.27 |
| 1991 | 452 | #514 | 0.24 |
| 1990 | 380 | #596 | 0.20 |
| 1989 | 343 | #618 | 0.19 |
| 1988 | 296 | #657 | 0.17 |
| 1987 | 296 | #638 | 0.17 |
| 1986 | 279 | #663 | 0.16 |
| 1985 | 320 | #598 | 0.19 |
| 1984 | 304 | #592 | 0.18 |
| 1983 | 370 | #515 | 0.22 |
| 1982 | 335 | #551 | 0.20 |
| 1981 | 314 | #587 | 0.19 |
| 1980 | 378 | #514 | 0.23 |
| 1979 | 285 | #620 | 0.18 |
| 1978 | 220 | #718 | 0.14 |
| 1977 | 202 | #755 | 0.13 |
| 1976 | 187 | #771 | 0.13 |
| 1975 | 146 | #902 | 0.10 |
| 1974 | 155 | #850 | 0.11 |
| 1973 | 45 | #1,871 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 30 | #2,431 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 37 | #2,199 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 30 | #2,487 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 23 | #2,807 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 24 | #2,593 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 21 | #2,746 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 14 | #3,477 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,238 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 12 | #4,013 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 16 | #3,273 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 16 | #3,242 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,638 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,944 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 12 | #3,742 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 12 | #3,665 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,597 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 13 | #3,438 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,593 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,507 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,345 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,654 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,182 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 5 | #5,083 | under 0.01 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,668 | under 0.01 |
| 1927 | 7 | #4,114 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,333 | under 0.01 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,750 | under 0.01 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,799 | under 0.01 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,882 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,238 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,598 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 5 | #5,023 | under 0.01 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,778 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,695 | 0.01 |
| 1908 | 10 | #1,403 | 0.03 |
| 1900 | 10 | #1,284 | 0.03 |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,621 | 0.02 |
| 1897 | 6 | #1,488 | 0.03 |
| 1895 | 6 | #1,527 | 0.03 |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,566 | 0.02 |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,385 | 0.03 |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,453 | 0.03 |
| 1890 | 8 | #1,062 | 0.04 |
| 1889 | 6 | #1,221 | 0.03 |
| 1886 | 6 | #1,058 | 0.04 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Maranda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maranda has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 97 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Maranda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maranda, and how old are they?
11,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 11,436 Americans ever recorded as Maranda. The median Maranda alive today is 34 years old; half are between 29 and 43.
The 2020 Census counted 9,628 people named Maranda (9,618 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 11,029 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 4 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 115 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,710 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 6,120 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,810 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 219 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Maranda born?
The states with the most babies named Maranda are Texas, Ohio and Georgia, with 23% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 937 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 611 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Georgia | 518 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| California | 496 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 493 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 483 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Kentucky | 402 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Tennessee | 389 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Illinois | 368 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 340 | not ranked | 0.7× |
Where Maranda is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Maranda is most over-represented in Kentucky: since 1910 it was given 2.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Maranda with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 13,455 babies since 1880, Maranda is the most given (85% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Maranda
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Maranda and names like it
- Compare Maranda and MarindaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMaranda peaked in 1994.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maranda since 1910.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Maranda.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Maranda alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.