girls:
11.4k births since 1886
#1472 (74th percentile)
overall:
11.4k births since 1886
#2463 (68th percentile)
The name Maranda is the #2,463 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 11,425 recorded births since 1886. This represents the 68.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 68.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,472 (74.3% percentile) for all time with 11,425 births since 1886.
Maranda first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1886 (first recorded for girls in 1886). Birth data for Maranda is available in 95 out of the 138 years between 1886 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Maranda reached its peak popularity in 1994, achieving the 55.5% percentile (ranked #377) with 316 births per million. The name was most common in 1995, with 320 births per million (ranked 55.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1996, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Maranda ranks #947 for girls (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 0.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Maranda".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Maranda", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 10 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Miranda" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Miranda..
Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Maranda. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 46.3% confident that Maranda is pronounced as muh-RAN-duh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is mer-AN-duh, at 36.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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