Fun Facts About the Name Baranda
- 16 babies named Baranda: U.S. records list 16 babies given the name Baranda from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Baranda Mean?
Baranda is chiefly a Spanish surname and is rarely used as a first name. It comes from the Spanish noun baranda, meaning "railing" or "balustrade" - the rail set along a stair, balcony, or landing. Read literally, the name denotes a railing rather than a personal quality. The noun's own history is not fully settled; it is a Romance word related to Portuguese varanda ("balcony," "railing") and is sometimes traced to Latin vara, "pole" or "rod." As a family name, Baranda was most likely topographic or occupational, describing a household marked by a railing or a person who made them.
Baranda Name History & Origins
Spanish family names of this kind were taken from ordinary words for objects near a home or workshop, and Baranda belongs to that group. It appears as a surname in Spain and, through Spanish colonial settlement and record-keeping, in Latin America and the Philippines, where Spanish family names were widely adopted in the nineteenth century.
The same spelling also has a separate life in southeastern Europe. Baranda is the name of a village in the Vojvodina region of Serbia, and the form is also found as a surname in Serbia and Croatia. That Balkan name has its own background, and the origin of the place name is not settled, so it should not be assumed to share the Spanish derivation.
How Popular is the Name Baranda?
Baranda has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 1979. Its best rank was #9,105 in 1979.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | #9,105 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 1977 | #9,768 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1976 | #9,412 | 5 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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