Meranda — girls' name

What the Data Says About Meranda

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,901 babies named Meranda between 1957 and 2013, spanning 57 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Meranda currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2013. The name reached its historical peak in 1994, when 186 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Meranda performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 1,431 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Meranda shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 323 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Ohio and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Meranda in 28 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Meranda in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,901 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.