Meranda
Meranda was last recorded in 2013, when 10 babies were given it; 2,901 Americans have been recorded with it between 1957 and 2013 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,820 Americans named Meranda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 29 and 41.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Meranda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Meranda?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,757, in 2013; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
186 babies in 1994, the peak
Meranda peaked in 1994, when 186 girls were given it, #1,000 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 10 | #10,757 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,488 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,484 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,967 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 27 | #5,331 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 30 | #4,976 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 27 | #5,332 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 29 | #4,910 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 41 | #3,623 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 53 | #2,981 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 27 | #4,765 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 56 | #2,729 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 56 | #2,680 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 65 | #2,389 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 105 | #1,605 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 99 | #1,642 | 0.06 |
| 1997 | 118 | #1,413 | 0.07 |
| 1996 | 158 | #1,151 | 0.09 |
| 1995 | 178 | #1,025 | 0.10 |
| 1994 | 186 | #1,000 | 0.10 |
| 1993 | 140 | #1,240 | 0.08 |
| 1992 | 153 | #1,150 | 0.08 |
| 1991 | 171 | #1,059 | 0.09 |
| 1990 | 123 | #1,317 | 0.06 |
| 1989 | 76 | #1,777 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 56 | #2,079 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 53 | #2,087 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 50 | #2,138 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 60 | #1,873 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 65 | #1,693 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 69 | #1,620 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 71 | #1,631 | 0.04 |
| 1981 | 64 | #1,763 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 90 | #1,388 | 0.05 |
| 1979 | 58 | #1,848 | 0.04 |
| 1978 | 58 | #1,777 | 0.04 |
| 1977 | 47 | #2,048 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 51 | #1,830 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 42 | #2,088 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 40 | #2,092 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,447 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,983 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,977 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,800 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,223 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,739 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,534 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,447 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,216 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Meranda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Meranda has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Meranda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Meranda, and how old are they?
2,820 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 2,901 Americans ever recorded as Meranda. The median Meranda alive today is 33 years old; half are between 29 and 41.
The 2020 Census counted 2,350 people named Meranda (2,350 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,844 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 10 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 412 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,630 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 761 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 10 |
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 Meranda born?
The states with the most babies named Meranda are Texas, Ohio and California, with 59% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 323 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Ohio | 194 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| California | 173 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 84 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Indiana | 81 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Florida | 37 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 30 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New York | 27 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Illinois | 26 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Missouri | 25 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Meranda is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Meranda is most over-represented in Ohio: since 1957 it was given 1.5 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 Meranda 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 3,595 babies since 1880, Meranda is the most given (81% 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 Meranda
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 Meranda and names like it
- Compare Meranda and MerindaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMeranda peaked in 1994.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Meranda since 1910.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Meranda.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Meranda alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.