How rare is the name Maranda?

9,628 people in the United States have the first name Maranda, about 1 in 31,370. It ranks #2,524 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

MARANDA

#2,524

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
9,628
About
1 in 31,370
This common or more
80.1%
Who bears it

Of the 9,628 people named Maranda, 72.4% reported their origin as White, 12.4% as Black and 8.1% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Maranda peaked in 1994, when 616 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18862025
Peak year
1994
Births that year
616
In 2025*
5 ▼99%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 11,436 babies have been given the name since 1886. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Maranda by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #1,021. The largest share of babies named Maranda, 54.9%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1880s#2,56212
1890s#2,31542
1900s#3,59420
1910s#7,89423
1920s#8,29739
1930s#11,9535
1940s#12,5745
1950s#6,39384
1960s#5,272144
1970s#1,6501,337
1980s#1,0863,235
1990s#1,0214,502
2000s#2,3991,587
2010s#6,947367
2020s#21,87134
Before 19010.6%
Greatest Generation 1901–270.6%
Silent Generation 1928–450.1%
Baby boom 1946–641.2%
Generation X 1965–8015.8%
Millennials 1981–9654.9%
Generation Z 1997–1224.9%
2013 and later1.9%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Maranda is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Maranda has been most common in Kentucky (2.5×), Oklahoma (2.3×), and Arkansas (2.1×), and least common in New Jersey (0.15×).

9,060 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Exactly as common as Maranda

1 other first name also has 9,628 people.

#2,524 Mathias · 9,628

Either side of Maranda

#2,522 Sung · 9,641#2,523 Jung · 9,636#2,524 Mathias · 9,628#2,526 Luka · 9,618

Spelled almost the same

3 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Maranda, most common first.

#9,169 Marinda · 1,537#37,938 Marenda · 204#48,513 Maronda · 131

Also a last name

As a last name, Maranda ranks #31,542 of 156,621, with 786 people. See Maranda as a last name

Compare