Girl · Latin, Shakespearean coinage
Miranda
Say it: mih-RAN-duh
Meaning
Created by Shakespeare in The Tempest, from Latin mirandus 'to be wondered at'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
A literary name that came into real use in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1990s
In the United States
- 112,621 babies given this name since 1881
- At its height in 1995, about 1 in 294 girls
- 549 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
| Spanish | Miranda |
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Famous bearers
- Miranda, heroine of The Tempest
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Where this comes from
- Well-known works of literature
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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