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Meranda

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Meranda is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.

Rank in 2024
fewer than 5 births
Births in 2024
0not in the data
Peak year
1994186 births
Best rank
never in the top 1,000
Since 1957
2,901people given the name
Babies named Meranda, by year of birthgirls
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The story in the numbers

2,901 girls have been named Meranda in the United States since 1957, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1994, with 186 births.

The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 186 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1992, and the 1990s alone account for 49%.

By decade

Decadegirls named Meranda
1950s7
1960s22
1970s328
1980s654
1990s1,431
2000s411
2010s48

In 1994, its biggest year

Meranda was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1994 were Jessica, Ashley, Emily, Samantha and Sarah. See all of 1994.

Names that rose and fell with Meranda

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.