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Maranda

#16,399 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Maranda has been given to 11,436 babies in the U.S. since 1886. In 2025 it ranked #16,399 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1994, with 616 recorded.

Babies named Maranda, 2025

1 in 663,000

Maranda over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maranda: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Maranda means

Maranda is a given name.

The naming story behind Maranda

Wikidata records Maranda as a given name. The entity identifier is Q108824283, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11,436 girls were recorded with the name Maranda between 1886 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 616 in 1994; its best national rank was #407 in 1994.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,309 in 2020 to #16,399 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,065 in 2015 to #16,399 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Maranda?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#16,399
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maranda sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maranda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Marandas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maranda was born before 1991 — so the typical Maranda is around 34 today.

Median birth year
1991
About 34 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
39.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
15.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
11,290
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 39.4% of all recorded uses (4,502).

Is Maranda rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+401
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−7,090
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−11,334
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.19×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
0.81%
Peak was 1994 (616)
Years since peak
31
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#407
1994

Spellings of Maranda

Maranda is not the most common spelling — Amanda is, with 71.8% against Maranda's 1.0%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Maranda is used

Across 1910–2025, Maranda was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 7,143 girls, against 1 in 16,809 across all states with data. It was least common in Nevada (1 in 100,000).

114 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Kentucky1 in 7,143
  2. 2Oklahoma1 in 7,692
  3. 3Arkansas1 in 8,333
  4. 4Georgia1 in 9,091
  5. 5Louisiana1 in 9,091
  6. 6Tennessee1 in 9,091
  7. 7Alabama1 in 10,000
  8. 8Florida1 in 11,111

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Maranda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Maranda around the world

Where Maranda ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • Canada
    1991–2012
    #2,315
    in 2012
  • South Australia
    1975–1996
    #712
    in 1996

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Maranda by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#16,399
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 7,090
Best rank ever
#407
1994
Peak year
1994
616 that year
First recorded
1886
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
11,436
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Maranda

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Maranda

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Maranda, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Maranda

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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