Miranda is 24 kilometres south of the Sydney central business district, in the Sutherland Shire.

James Murphy, the manager of the Holt estate named the area after Miranda, a character in the William Shakespeare play The Tempest.

In a 1921 letter, James Murphy said "the name Miranda was given to the locality by me as manager of the Holt Sutherland Company which I formed in 1881.

It is believed that the character in the play was named after Miranda de Ebro, a town in Spain.

[3] Miranda is the main retail and commercial centre of the Sutherland Shire with shops located on either side of the railway line.

Other languages spoken at home included Mandarin 3.6%, Greek 2.3%, Cantonese 1.9%, Spanish 1.8% and Arabic 1.2%.