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miranda Name Meaning and History

Spanish, Portuguese, and Jewish (Sephardic): habitational name from any of numerous places in Spain and Portugal called Miranda. The derivation of the place name is uncertain; it may be of pre-Roman origin, or from Latin miranda ‘view’, ‘outlook’. This name is also found in western India, where it was taken by Portuguese colonists.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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miranda Family Facts

Distribution of miranda Families in the US in 1920
Number of miranda families
 150-298
 51-149
 1-50
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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