Meranda
Recorded 1957–2013 · United States
Meranda was most popular in 1994, when 186 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,738 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,901 people named Meranda.
Meranda over time
How old is the name Meranda?
Meranda first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1957, which makes it about 68 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 49 of the 69 years since. It was last recorded in 2013.
How many people are named Meranda?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,901 American births named Meranda between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 2,834 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Meranda in 2025?
Meranda was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Meranda getting more or less popular?
Meranda is out of use. It averaged 13 births a year a decade ago and has not been recorded in the last five years.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Meranda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Meranda is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 2,901 Americans given it were girls and 0.0% were boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Meranda?
Roughly 2,834 Americans named Meranda are alive today — 98% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 33 years old, and half are between 29 and 41. That is a narrow band: Meranda arrived and faded within about a decade rather than staying in steady use.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Meranda is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org