Miranda (given name)
Appearance
Pronunciation | mer-ANN-dah... or "mee-RON-dah |
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Gender | Feminine |
Origin | |
Word/name | Latin |
Meaning | worthy of admiration |
Other names | |
Related names | Mira, Miran, Randy, Amanda, Myranda, Merrandah |
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.
List of people with given name Miranda
- Miranda (Colombian singer), Colombian singer, winner of La Voz Colombia
- Miranda Carter, British writer and biographer
- Miranda Chartrand, Canadian singer
- Miranda Connell, English actress
- Miranda Cooper, UK pop 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 Krestovnikoff, British television presenter
- Miranda Kwok, Canadian actor and film producer
- Miranda Lambert, country and western singer-songwriter
- Miranda Lee, Australian author of romance novels
- Miranda Leek, American archer
- Miranda Liu, American classical violinist
- 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
List of fictional characters with given name Miranda
- Miranda, the daughter of Prospero in Shakespeare's play The Tempest
- Miranda, the schoolgirl who goes missing in Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
- Miranda Tate, a fictional character played by Marion Cotillard in the 2012 film The Dark Knight Rises
- Miranda Bailey, Chief of Surgery and attending general surgeon at Grey-Sloan Memorial Hospital in the American television series Grey's Anatomy
- Miranda Corneille, a character in the Canadian webcomic User Friendly
- Miranda Feigelsteen, a character in the Canadian television series Mysterious Ways
- Miranda Frost, a character in the British film Die Another Day
- Miranda Goshawk, a character in the novel series Harry Potter by English author J. K. Rowling
- Miranda Hobbes, a character in the American television series Sex and the City
- Miranda Jeffries, a character in the American film Chances Are
- Miranda Keyes, a character in the American video game series Halo
- Miranda Killgallen, a character in the American television series As Told By Ginger
- Miranda Kincaid, a character in the novel A Kiss Before You Leave Me by American author James Hulbert
- Miranda Lawson, a character in the Canadian video game series Mass Effect
- Miranda Lotto, a character in the comic "D.Gray-man" by Japanese author Katsura Hoshino
- Miranda Montgomery, a character in the American television series All My Children
- Miranda Priestly, a character in the novel The Devil Wears Prada by American author Lauren Weisberger
- Miranda Sanchez, a character in the American television series Lizzie McGuire
- Miranda Sings, a character that was made into a YouTube sensation
- Miranda Wright, a character in the American television series Bonkers
- Miranda Grey, a character in the novel The Collector by English author John Fowles
References
- ^ "Miranda - Name Meaning and Origin". thinkbabynames.com. Retrieved 2008-02-03.