Miranda (given name)

This article is about the given name Miranda. For the surname, see Miranda (surname). For other uses, see Miranda.

Miranda
Pronunciation	mer-ANN-dah... or "mee-RON-dah
Gender	Feminine
Origin
Word/Name	Latin
Meaning	worthy of admiration
Other names
Related names	Mira, Miran, Randy, Amanda

Miranda is a feminine given name of Latin origin, meaning "worthy of admiration". There are several variants.^[1] It is also common as a surname. There is a related adjective, seldom used but found in the Oxford English Dictionary, which is "Mirandous", a synonym to miraculous.

• Miranda (singer) from Spain
• Miranda Carter, British writer and biographer
• Miranda Chartrand, Canadian singer
• Miranda Connell, English actress
• Miranda Cooper, UK pop production person
• Miranda Cosgrove, actress and singer
• Miranda Devine, Australian columnist and writer
• Miranda Grosvenor, bored fan in the US who made a full-time hobby of calling stars
• Miranda Hart, British comedy actress and writer
• Miranda Hill (1836 — 1910), English social reformer
• Miranda Jarrett, pen name for American author Susan Holloway Scott
• Miranda July, performance artist
• Miranda Kerr, Australian model
• Miranda of Chuquisaca, crown princess of Bolivia
• Miranda Kwok, Canadian actor and film producer
• Miranda Lambert, country and western singer-songwriter
• Miranda Lee, Australian author of romance novels
• Miranda Macmillan, Countess of Stockton
• Miranda Otto, Australian film and theatre actress
• Miranda Prather, American woman convicted of faking a hate crime
• Miranda Raison, English actress
• Miranda Lee Richards, American singer-songwriter
• Miranda Richardson, Academy Award-nominated English actress
• Miranda Sawyer, English journalist and broadcaster.
• Miranda Seymour, English literary critic, novelist, and biographer
• Miranda Silvergren, Swedish psytrance artist and producer
• Miranda Stone, Canadian singer-songwriter
• Miranda Yang, Hong Kong actress, see Xia Meng

References

1. ^ "Miranda - Name Meaning and Origin". thinkbabynames.com. http://www.thinkbabynames.com/search.php?s=Miranda&g=0&t=1. Retrieved 2008-02-03. 

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