Meaning and history
Amanda is partly a feminine form of Amandus, but it was not used in the Middle Ages. In the 17th century, authors and poets revived it directly from the Latin amanda, meaning “lovable” or “worthy of love,” and the playwright Colley Cibber notably used it for a character in his 1696 play Love’s Last Shift. It did not come into regular use until the 19th century.
20062006: 3,362 births, rank #100
2007: 3,051 births, rank #111
2008: 2,451 births, rank #137
2009: 1,963 births, rank #165
2010: 1,664 births, rank #188
20112011: 1,413 births, rank #224
2012: 1,236 births, rank #262
2013: 1,076 births, rank #297
2014: 1,060 births, rank #310
2015: 1,034 births, rank #313
20162016: 1,005 births, rank #326
2017: 968 births, rank #335
2018: 855 births, rank #368
2019: 770 births, rank #405
2020: 695 births, rank #444
20212021: 660 births, rank #473
2022: 691 births, rank #459
2023: 636 births, rank #483
2024: 621 births, rank #495
20252025: 601 births, rank #493
Amanda rose from #495 to #493 for girls between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 1987, with 41,786 births.