Amanda

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Amanda boys named Amanda

By the numbers

Total US births

792,774

Estimated living today

748,000

Median age today

39

Peak year

1987

Best rank

3rd

Rank in 2025

493rd

First recorded

1880

Girls / boys

790,638 / 2,136

How old the living Amandas are

born that year still alive today

Of the 792,774 babies given the name since 1880, about 748,000 are alive — 94 in every hundred. Roughly 19,000 of them are children and 7,400 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1986 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin Latin

feminine form of the saint's name, 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.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Amandas

• Amanda Seyfried (born 1985)American actress
• Amanda Peet (born 1972)American actress
• Amanda Bynes (born 1986)American actress and fashion designer
• Amanda Gorman (born 1998)American poet and activist
• Amanda Lear (born 1939)French singer, actress, television presenter
• Amanda Tapping (born 1965)English-born Canadian actress
• Amanda Righetti (born 1983)American actress
• Amanda Palmer (born 1976)American musician and songwriter

People named Amanda with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Amanda is most common

• CA69,653
• TX62,105
• NY48,547
• OH40,155
• PA37,501
• FL35,926
• IL33,656
• MI30,715
• GA22,760
• IN22,116

Relative to how many babies each state records, Amanda is most concentrated in Alaska (1.7×), Wyoming (1.5×), New Hampshire (1.5×), Florida (1.3×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1987

The most popular girls’ names the year Amanda peaked:

• Jessica
• Ashley
• Amanda
• Jennifer
• Sarah
• Stephanie

All the names of 1987

Amanda elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Amanda: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Amanda is most concentrated in Ticino, where 0.14% of children were given it – 85 of them.

Amanda: rank by region

In 2024, Amanda was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

In 2019, Amanda was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.

In 2025, Amanda was given 2 times or more in 14 regions of Poland.

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Amanda by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Amanda among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Among girls in Finland this is mostly a middle name: of the 24,900 who carry it, 5,866 go by it.

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026, the Netherlands on 1 January 2018 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Amanda lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 14,144 women called Amanda were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Amari
• Amaya
• Amara
• Amalia
• Amani
• Amaris
• Amare
• Amayah
• Amaia
• Amar
• Amado
• Amal

Amanda against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Amanda vs Amari
• Amanda vs Amaya
• Amanda vs Amara
• Amanda vs Amalia
• Amanda vs Amani
• Amanda vs Amaris

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