What country of origin is Maranda?

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What country of origin is Maranda?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: The name is found in every Spanish, Portuguese and French-speaking country, from the Azores and Brazil to the Philippines and Spain proper. As noted earlier, it's a name based on Latin (Mirar = To Look...Miranda=To Look Up To or Admire)

Names belong to people and move around as people move. When the Spanish and Portuguese explored the New World, they took their Latin-based names with them and gave them to natives wherever they colonized. So the names no longer belong to any one country, but to the people who spread them. The Spanish in particular had lists of acceptable names that they could give to natives who accepted Christianity. Miranda was one of those names. You'll find that there are millions of people who bear these Latino names but who don't have a drop of Spanish blood in their bodies. One of their ancestors was given that name and it's been passed to his successors for the last 500 years.