Meaning and background
The story behind Miranda
Miranda has a literary origin documented through Shakespeare's The Tempest. Behind the Name traces it to a Latin adjective concerning admiration and identifies Shakespeare's heroine as the source of the personal name. It also notes that a moon of Uranus was named after the character. The sequence matters: the astronomical association follows the literary one, giving the spelling connected but distinct layers of cultural history.
- Origin
- Name created by Shakespeare for The Tempest, derived from Latin mirandus, admirable or worthy of admiration. Source
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About Miranda
Recorded as a dog’s name
Miranda appears in 3 dog licence records in the 2026 New York City dataset.
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Pronunciation and rhythm
/mɚændə/
US English sound sequence, converted from the CMU dictionary. Stress marks are shown separately.
Stress on the second syllable in the recorded US readings.
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/mɚændə/ · primary stress on syllable 2M ER0 AE1 N D AH0
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Sources and research notes (2)
- New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene NYC Dog Licensing Dataset — extract_year 2026 — Dog licence periods, not unique dogs; NYC only. No owner-level fields retrieved.
- Carnegie Mellon University / CMU Sphinx maintainers CMU US English Pronouncing Dictionary — US English dictionary readings; not owner-specific or exhaustive multilingual pronunciation
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