Meaning and history
Miranda is derived from Latin mirandus, meaning “admirable” or “worthy of being admired.” Shakespeare created the name for the heroine of The Tempest (1611), where Miranda and her father Prospero are stranded on an island, and it did not become a common English given name until the 20th century. It is also the name of one of Uranus’s moons, which was named after the Shakespearean character.
20062006: 2,500 births, rank #139
2007: 2,272 births, rank #154
2008: 2,066 births, rank #162
2009: 1,813 births, rank #182
2010: 1,779 births, rank #174
20112011: 1,570 births, rank #200
2012: 1,475 births, rank #213
2013: 1,302 births, rank #245
2014: 1,353 births, rank #239
2015: 1,135 births, rank #279
20162016: 1,138 births, rank #277
2017: 939 births, rank #344
2018: 861 births, rank #367
2019: 698 births, rank #446
2020: 556 births, rank #542
20212021: 513 births, rank #587
2022: 563 births, rank #546
2023: 520 births, rank #571
2024: 479 births, rank #623
20252025: 437 births, rank #654
Miranda moved from #623 to #656 for girls between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 1995, with 5,978 births.