Amanda is a very old name, that occasionally appeared in Late Antiquity. It is based on the Latin ‘amanda’ meaning ‘lovable, worthy of love’.
Amanda is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
The name Amanda isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Amanda ranks 308. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 6 were named Amanda. In total, there are currently 776,323 people – children, adults and seniors – named Amanda living in the United States, which is approximately 0.23 % of the entire population.
Amanda is a very old name, that occasionally appeared in Late Antiquity. It is based on the Latin ‘amanda’ meaning ‘lovable, worthy of love’.
In the 17th century,... English poets and playwrights used and popularized the name, that then came into regular use during the 19th century.
The name Amanda seems to be an integral part of the U.S. - without Amanda, the Constitution, and basketball, the U.S. would not be the U.S. we love. This is obvious from the fact that Amanda is one of the few names that have been given in the USA in every single year since the beginning of the name statistics and thus since 1880. Of course, Amanda hasn't been equally popular in all 142 years - it was most often given as a baby name before the 2000s: In 1980 it was one of the top 10 most popular baby girl names in the entire United States, ranking #2 on the SmartGenius name statistics.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Amanda was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
653 young parents chose the name Amanda for their newborn child in 2021, placing it at number 435 on the list of most popular girls names - in other words, 434 girls names were given more frequently in 2021. Particularly rare was the name in 1937 - when only 176 parents named their newborn child Amanda in the entire year. This puts it at position 472 in our SmartGenius first name statistics.
Amanda is one of the most common names in the U.S. – in all states combined, 775,497 women would currently turn around if you called out AMANDA really loud. Across all states and age groups, this lands Amanda on position 24 in our SmartGenius ranking of the top female names – of course, the current popularity as a baby name for newborns looks somewhat different, as you can see from the statistics above. With so many women named Amanda, it’s no surprise that the name is widely used in every single state in the U.S., but would you have guessed that it’s especially popular in Alaska? Here, 1,00% of all female residents bear the name Amanda – that is a total of 1,894 women with this popular name and no other state has as many women named Amanda relative to its population. But that’s not all the popularity: in Alaska Amanda belongs to the top 10 of all womens names – the 1,894 elevate their name up to place #6 in the SmartGenius ranking of the most common female names for Alaska.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is the most popular first letter for girls’ names. 11.8% of all common girls’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in girls' names is S.
With six letters, the name Amanda is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 11.8% of all girls' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs over three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the girls' names that begin with the letter A, the name Ashley is the most common.
If your name is Amanda and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Amanda, you can simply say:
Apple
Mouse
Apple
Nut
Dinosaur
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Amanda
Amanda
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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M
A
N
D
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
A
M
A
N
D
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Amanda sounds like this:
