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Amanda
Pronounced /əˈmændə/
Rank in 2024
#496
Born in 2024
617
Peak year
1987 · #3
Origin
Latin
Also recorded for boys:0 in 2024
1880 to 2024
CoolingIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 617 girls were named Amanda, about 1 in every 2,615.
- It peaked in 1987 with 41,786 babies, ranked #3.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 790,015 girls have been named Amanda since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Amanda per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.4Greatest1901–27
- 0.2Silent1928–45
- 0.3Boomers1946–64
- 6.7Gen X1965–80
- 17.4Millennials1981–96
- 2.9Gen Z1997–12
- 0.5Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 8,858 babies, 0.43 per 1,000. Silent: 3,959 babies, 0.19 per 1,000. Boomers: 11,984 babies, 0.33 per 1,000. Gen X: 171,620 babies, 6.72 per 1,000. Millennials: 492,128 babies, 17.43 per 1,000. Gen Z: 83,877 babies, 2.89 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 10,060 babies, 0.50 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Derived from Latin Amanda, feminine form of the saint's name Amandus, from amandus, future passive participle of amāre (“to love”): thus meaning "who/which is to be loved". Taken into regular use as an English given name from 18th-century literature. Doublet of Aimee.
- A female given name from Latin.
- Origin
- Latin
- Say it
- /əˈmændə/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Amanda, CC BY-SA 4.0.