Smaranda is from the Romanian Smaranda — from the Greek smaragdos (emerald). Smaranda Brăescu (1897-1948) was a Romanian parachutist and aviator — widely considered one of the figures of Romanian aviation. First licensed Romanian female pilot. Crossed the Mediterranean solo in 1932. name in Romanian aviation + feminist heritage.
Smaranda does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Smaranda reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.