Amanda
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Latin, ‘worthy of love’; a literary invention first recorded in Love’s Last Shift (1694)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/əmændə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Amanda is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Nicaragua it is the 58th most common given name.
- BRBrazil1 in 427(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 476
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 498
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 473 (measured from records)
- 1 in 225 (inferred from the name graph)
698,989 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Latin, ‘worthy of love’; a literary invention first recorded in Love’s Last Shift (1694).
Sources 1
- Irish first names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Amanda counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #879 | 698,989 | 1 in 476 | 698K | Amanda | 473 |
| BR Brazil | #102 | 495,974 | 1 in 427 | 496K | Amanda | 255 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 498 | — | Amanda | 147 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈72,000 est. | ≈1 in 782 | — | Amanda | 42 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈62,000 est. | ≈1 in 611 | 6 | Amanda | 165 |
| SE Sweden | — | 38,257 | 1 in 267 | 38K | — | 48 |
| FI Finland | — | 24,734 | 1 in 225 | 43K | — | 16 |
| NI Nicaragua | #58 | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Amanda | 34 |
698,989 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Amanda is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
2 A 17th-century literary coinage from the Latin gerundive (feminine) amanda ‘lovable’, ‘fit to be loved’, from amdre ‘to
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In Swedish, Amanda är ett latinskt namn med betydelsen ’den älskvärda’, femininform till → Amandus. Namnet blev känt i Sverige genom en diktargestalt hos Erik Johan Stagnelius (1793–1823) och var vanligt under hela 1800-talet. Det har varit mycket populärt under senare tid med en topp kring millennieskiftet men är nu på nedgång. I både den rikssvenska och finlandssvenska almanackan 26 oktober.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In French, Forme féminine d’Amand; origine latine, signifie « amoureuse ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, Latin Amanda, 'she who must be loved'.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In English, Latin 'worthy of love'
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Amanda Plummerb. 1957USAmerican actress
- Amanda Holdenb. 1971GBEnglish actress
- Amanda Peetb. 1972USAmerican actress
- Amanda Palmerb. 1976USAmerican musician and songwriter (born 1976)
- Amanda Righettib. 1983USAmerican actress
- Mandy Mooreb. 1984USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress and singer (born 1984)
- Amanda Seyfriedb. 1985USAmerican actress (born 1985)
- Amanda Crewb. 1986CACanadian actress
- Amanda Bynesb. 1986USAmerican actress and fashion designer (born 1986)
- Amanda Saccomannob. 1990USAmerican actress, model and professional wrestler
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 129 sources across 69 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 698K | #50 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 496K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 494K | #42 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 466K | #82 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes no Brasil API (Census 2010 + 2022) | — | 465K | #13 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 43K | #33 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 38K | #108 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 25K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 25K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 9.9K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2.3K | #42 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 618 | #50 |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Amanda mean, and where does it come from?
- Latin, ‘worthy of love’; a literary invention first recorded in Love’s Last Shift (1694). Recorded by Irish first names.
- Is Amanda a male or female name?
- Amanda is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Amanda?
- In the etymology graph, Amandine is a form of the same name in other languages; Mandy is a recorded short or pet form.
- How common is the name Amanda?
- In the United States, the national register counted 698,989 people named Amanda in 2020, about 1 in 476 residents.
- How common is Amanda compared with other names?
- In the United States, Amanda is the 879th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
- In which country does Amanda have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 699 thousand people named Amanda, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled amanda.
- Where is Amanda most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Amanda is densest in Finland — about 1 in 225 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How do you pronounce Amanda?
- A machine transcription gives /əmændə/ (IPA) for English.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/amandaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Amanda” — the 879th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.