Amanda

given name · Portuguese · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Amanda is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Nicaragua it is the 47th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Latin, ‘worthy of love’; a literary invention first recorded in Love’s Last Shift (1694).

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 427◐
  • USUnited States1 in 476
  • NINicaragua1 in 984

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈1.3M ●

across 14 countries

#307 ●

of 16M given names

Sources
435 ●

829K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 225 ◐

Finland

Meaning & origin●

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●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Amanda is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#855698,371△273K rec.1 in 476698KAmanda435
BR Brazil#67495,974△136K rec.1 in 427496KAmanda251
AR Argentina#387242,190164K rec.—415Amanda96
CL Chile#20277,3604.8K rec.—1.1KAmanda105
PE Peru#48462,79149K rec.——Amanda60
MX Mexico#49762,33550K rec.—215Amanda166
VE Venezuela#63438,78919K rec.——Amanda71
SE Sweden—38,257△1.1K rec.1 in 26738K—51
CO Colombia#22332,10118K rec.——Amanda115
FI Finland—24,734△90 rec.1 in 22543K—18
NI Nicaragua#4715,29615K rec.——Amanda31
ES Spain#45014,14419K rec.1 in 3.5K14KAmanda142

Roughly 698K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 476). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Portuguese6.8M43%
  • English6.7M42%
  • Spanish876K6%
  • 327K2%
  • Finnish159K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Portuguese6,788,66943%
English6,690,42642%
Spanish876,1206%
326,6722%
Finnish158,9641%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Amanda is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name7.7M records spelled Amanda85 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, United Kingdom, Australia

    Languages: English, Spanish, German

    Also written Amada, אמנדה, Ამანდა, Ämändä, Àmanda

  • a separate given name347K records spelled Amanda2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom, Canada

    Also written Amánd̲a

  • Finnish given name171K records spelled Amanda5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States, Hungary, Sweden

    Languages: Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian

    Also written Åmanda, Ämändä

  • Indonesian given name69K records spelled Amanda3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, United States, Malaysia, United Kingdom

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Amanda

  • Polish given name66K records spelled Amanda20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States, United Kingdom, Czechia

    Languages: Polish, Russian, Czech

    Also written Аманда, Аманды

87 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

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.

Over time●

020K40K60K19001950200042K · 1987

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Amanda in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–2025
Yearrecords
1880241
1881263
1882288
1883287
1884337
1885339
1886370
1887338
1888404
1889413
1890392
1891371
1892455
1893387
1894418
1895431
1896367
1897354
1898371
1899326
1900377
1901317
1902301
1903247
1904294
1905311
1906260
1907285
1908260
1909271
1910278
1911280
1912310
1913346
1914375
1915412
1916421
1917445
1918397
1919379
1920379
1921392
1922341
1923362
1924341
1925309
1926311
1927234
1928247
1929209
1930196
1931209
1932213
1933200
1934189
1935213
1936192
1937176
1938192
1939185
1940218
1941223
1942295
1943284
1944237
1945280
1946273
1947310
1948306
1949333
1950380
1951409
1952416
1953427
1954428
1955453
1956639
1957670
1958791
1959858
1960978
19611,056
1962948
19631,032
19641,276
19651,649
19662,331
19672,660
19682,431
19692,815
19703,545
19714,130
19724,180
19735,625
19747,473
197512,657
197615,588
197718,278
197820,520
197931,924
198035,811
198134,372
198234,214
198333,749
198433,915
198539,055
198640,532
198741,786
198839,459
198936,834
199034,413
199128,896
199225,039
199320,811
199418,718
199516,354
199613,980
199712,243
199810,928
19999,750
20008,558
20016,980
20026,145
20035,354
20044,697
20054,099
20063,362
20073,051
20082,451
20091,963
20101,664
20111,413
20121,236
20131,076
20141,060
20151,034
20161,005
2017968
2018855
2019770
2020695
2021660
2022691
2023636
2024621
2025601

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Amanda Plummer, b. 1957Amanda Holden, b. 1971Amanda Peet, b. 1972Amanda Palmer, b. 1976Amanda Righetti, b. 1983Mandy Moore, b. 1984Amanda Seyfried, b. 1985Amanda Crew, b. 1986Amanda Bynes, b. 1986Amanda Saccomanno, b. 1990

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).

Evidence●

Attested in 126 sources across 69 countries.

Official registers attesting Amanda
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020698K#50
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022496K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—494K#42
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—466K#82
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes no Brasil API (Census 2010 + 2022)—465K#13
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—43K#65
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—38K#108
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—25K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202025K—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—17K#275
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—14K#445
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—13K#238

Reference works 5

  • 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)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,797 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Amanda?
We estimate roughly 1.3 million people bear Amanda (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.
In which country does Amanda have the most bearers?
We estimate about 698 thousand people bear Amanda in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, 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 common is Amanda compared with other names?
In the United States, Amanda is the 855th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.
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 does the name Amanda mean?
Recorded meaning: Latin, ‘worthy of love’; a literary invention first recorded in Love’s Last Shift (1694).
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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 855th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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