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Amanda

Girls' name · Late 20th-century

Living in the US
~751,700 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank
#493 among girls
Births in 2025
601 792,774 since 1880
Typical age
39 years, median

Amanda popularity over time

Amanda rank by birth year, 1880–2025Amanda ranked #89 in 1880 and #493 in 2025. Its best rank in the period was #2, in 1980.#10#100#493best #2 in 198018901920195019802010
Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1880–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

More children were named Amanda in 1987 than in any other year — 41,909 of them. The name is already in use in 1880, where the data begins. It has held a top-100 place in 46 separate years.

As of 2025 the name sits at #493, with 601 births that year. The ten-year change is -42%.

Babies named Amanda per yearPeaks at 41,909 births in 1987.41,909 in 1987018901920195019802010
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Amanda?

About 751,700 people named Amanda are alive in the United States today. That is out of 792,774 recorded births since 1880.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Amanda?

The typical living Amanda is 39 years old. The 1980s produced the largest surviving cohort. By the site’s era rules that makes Amanda a late 20th-century name.

Your Amanda

Ages of living people named AmandaHalf of living Amandas are older than 39 and half younger.median 39020406080100
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Where Amanda is most common

Amanda is 2.2× as common in Florida as it is nationally. Pennsylvania, New York and California follow.

Where Amanda is used more than average5 states use the name Amanda more than the national average.Alaska: not over-representedAKMaine: not over-representedMEVermont: not over-representedVTNew Hampshire: not over-representedNHWashington: not over-representedWAIdaho: not over-representedIDMontana: not over-representedMTNorth Dakota: not over-representedNDMinnesota: not over-representedMNIllinois: not over-representedILWisconsin: not over-representedWIMichigan: not over-representedMINew York: 1.6× the national rateNYOregon: not over-representedORNevada: not over-representedNVWyoming: not over-representedWYSouth Dakota: not over-representedSDIowa: not over-representedIAIndiana: not over-representedINOhio: not over-representedOHPennsylvania: 2.1× the national ratePANew Jersey: 1.4× the national rateNJConnecticut: not over-representedCTRhode Island: not over-representedRICalifornia: 1.4× the national rateCAUtah: not over-representedUTColorado: not over-representedCONebraska: not over-representedNEMissouri: not over-representedMOKentucky: not over-representedKYWest Virginia: not over-representedWVVirginia: not over-representedVAMaryland: not over-representedMDDelaware: not over-representedDEMassachusetts: not over-representedMAArizona: not over-representedAZNew Mexico: not over-representedNMKansas: not over-representedKSArkansas: not over-representedARTennessee: not over-representedTNNorth Carolina: not over-representedNCSouth Carolina: not over-representedSCDistrict of Columbia: not over-representedDCOklahoma: not over-representedOKLouisiana: not over-representedLAMississippi: not over-representedMSAlabama: not over-representedALGeorgia: not over-representedGAHawaii: not over-representedHITexas: not over-representedTXFlorida: 2.2× the national rateFL
Same as national3× or more
Location quotient, 2016–2025. Shaded states use the name more than the country does, relative to their own births. Exact figures are in the table below.
States where Amanda is over-represented, 2016–2025. The location quotient compares the state's share of the name with the national share.
StateBirthsvs national rate
Florida 845 2.2×
Pennsylvania 464 2.1×
New York 602 1.6×
California 1,162 1.4×
New Jersey 235 1.4×

Amanda in England and Wales

ONS recorded 35 births named Amanda in 2025, ranking it #983. That is 30% lower than five years earlier.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Counts below three are suppressed by ONS.

Where the name Amanda comes from

Derived from Latin Amanda, 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. Doublet of Aimee.

Etymology summarised from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0. Wiktionary entry.

Notable people named Amanda

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
NameKnown forYearsEditions
Amanda Seyfried American actress 1985 84
Amanda Peet American actress 1972 72
Amanda Bynes American actress and fashion designer 1986 57
Amanda Gorman American poet and activist 1998 49
Amanda Lear French singer, actress, television presenter 1939 47
Amanda Tapping English-born Canadian actress 1965 43
Amanda Righetti American actress 1983 41
Amanda Palmer American musician and songwriter 1976 40
Photo credits (8)

The sharpest rise. Births under this name jumped from 7,498 in 1974 to 12,702 in 1975 — 1.7 times over in a single year.

Birth records contain the rise and nothing about its cause. This site does not supply one.

People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

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