Merranda
Merranda was last recorded in 1998, when 5 babies were given it; 132 Americans have been recorded with it between 1976 and 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Merranda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Merranda?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,738, in 1998; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
13 babies in 1990, the peak
Merranda peaked in 1990, when 13 girls were given it, #6,722 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 5 | #15,738 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,160 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,204 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,267 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,916 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,867 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,502 | 5.4 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,242 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,722 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,827 | 5.4 |
Every recorded year (17)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 7 | #9,193 | 4.1 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,352 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 6 | #10,002 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,899 | 3.6 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,881 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,762 | 5.0 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,286 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Merranda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Merranda has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 17 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Merranda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Merranda, and how old are they?
An estimated 128 Americans named Merranda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 32 and 43. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 130 people named Merranda (128 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 129 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Merranda?
Merranda is a less common spelling of Meranda: SSA has recorded 132 Merranda and 2,901 Meranda since 1880.
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 3,595 babies since 1880, Merranda is the third most given (3.7% 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 Merranda
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 Merranda and names like it
- Compare Merranda and MerandaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMerranda peaked in 1990.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Merranda.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Merranda alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.