Amanda

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.

• IPA^(key): /əˈmændə/

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  • (General American, æ-tensing) IPA^(key): [əˈmɛəndə]
• Rhymes: -ændə

Amanda

1. A female given name from Latin.
   • 1767 Laurence Sterne: Tristram Shandy: Book VII, Chapter 31:

     O there is a sweet era in the life of man, when ( the brain being tender and fibrillous, and more like pap than anything else ) - a story read of two fond lovers, separated from each other by cruel parents, and by still more cruel destiny -

     Amandus - He

     Amanda - She -

     each ignorant of the other's course.

   • 1994, Caroline Graham, Written in Blood, page 35:

     Sue always thought of her offspring as Amanda. Allowing her to name the child had been one of the last indulgences that Brian had seen fit to bestow. Even then he had not the generosity to conceal his displeasure at her choice. Pretentious. Snobbish. Affected. The baby had been 'Mandy' from the day of her birth and, once Brian had really got the hang of high-rise/comprehensive linguistic mores, 'Mand'.

   • 2025 February 2, Vittoria Elliott, “The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Government Takeover”, in WIRED‎^[1], archived from the original on 2 February 2025:

     Both Bobba and Coristine are listed in internal OPM records reviewed by WIRED as “experts” at OPM, reporting directly to Amanda Scales, its new chief of staff.

2. A place in the United States:
   1. A township in Allen County, Ohio.
   2. A township and village therein, in Fairfield County, Ohio.
   3. A township in Hancock County, Ohio.

• Mandy

• amadan

Derived from Latin Amanda.

Amanda c

1. a female given name

Derived from Latin Amanda.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑmɑndɑ/, [ˈɑ̝mɑ̝ndɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑmɑndɑ
• Syllabification^(key): A‧man‧da
• Hyphenation^(key): A‧man‧da

Amanda

1. a female given name
   • 1990, Tuula-Liina Varis, Vauvat yhdentyvät Eurooppaan, Suomen Kuvalehti, 30 (27.7.)1990:

     Koreita nimiä ku köyhän kakaroilla, sanottiin ennen. Köyhällä ei muuta koreata ollut lapselleen antaa. Itsellenikin on läheinen lounaissuomalainen maatyöläisen pesue, jossa suomalaisen nimen peräkaneettina vilisi Wilhelmiinaa, Aleksandraa ja Amandaa, jopa Dagmar. Suuresti epäilen, osasiko kumpikaan vanhemmista sitä lausua.

     Such rich names for such poor children, as we used to say. The only rich thing a poor person had was the name they could give ot their child. I knew very well a southwestern family living off the land, where their Finnish names were followed by Wilhelmina, Aleksandra, Amanda, even Dagmar. I have my doubts about whether either of the parents even could pronounce those correctly.

   • 1996, Raija Siekkinen, Kaunis nimi, Otava, →ISBN, pages 80–81:

     Mutta hän katseli tyttöä: kummallinen nimi, Siiri, vaikka vanhat nimet olivatkin muotia nykyisin, ja pienet Annit ja Amandat tappelivat muovileluista hiekkalaatikoissaan; mutta siihen sukupolveen tämä tyttö ei kuulunut.

     But she looked at the girl: odd name, Siiri, even if old names are in these days, and small Annis and Amandas fought over the plastic toys in their sandboxes; but this girl was not of that generation.

• Manta

• Amanda is the 129^th most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 5,493 female individuals (and as a middle name to 17,985 more, making it more common as a middle name), and also belongs as a middle name to 7 male individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

Borrowed from Latin Amanda.

• IPA^(key): /a.mɑ̃.da/

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Amanda f

1. a female given name

• Amandine

Borrowed from Latin Amanda.

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Amanda f

1. a female given name

See various people named “Amanda” on the Indonesian Wikipedia: [2]

Borrowed from English Amanda.

Amanda

1. a female given name from English

Borrowed from Spanish Amanda.

Amanda

1. a female given name from Spanish

Derived from Latin Amanda.

Amanda f

1. a female given name

Derived from Latin Amanda. First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1893.

Amanda f

1. a female given name

• Klāvs Siliņš: Latviešu personvārdu vārdnīca. Riga "Zinātne" 1990, →ISBN
• [3] Population Register of Latvia: Amanda was the only given name of 1876 persons in Latvia on May 21st 2010.

Derived from Latin Amanda.

Amanda m or f

1. a female given name

Derived from Latin Amanda.

Amanda f

1. a female given name

Learned borrowing from Latin Amanda.

• IPA^(key): /aˈman.da/

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• Rhymes: -anda
• Syllabification: A‧man‧da

Amanda f

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Amanda

• Amanda in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• Homophone: amanda
• Hyphenation: A‧man‧da

Amanda f (plural Amandas)

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Amanda

Amanda f (Cyrillic spelling Аманда)

1. a female given name

• “Amanda”, in Portal suvremenih hrvatskih osobnih imena [Portal of contemporary Croatian personal names] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2018–2025

Borrowed from Latin Amanda.

• IPA^(key): /aˈmanda/ [aˈmãn̪.d̪a]
• Rhymes: -anda
• Syllabification: A‧man‧da

Amanda f

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Amande

Derived from Latin Amanda. First recorded in Sweden in 1735.

• IPA^(key): /a²manda/

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Amanda c (genitive Amandas)

1. a female given name

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
• [4] Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 33 296 females with the given name Amanda living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1990s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.

See various people named “Amanda” on the Tagalog Wikipedia: [5]

Borrowed from English Amanda.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔaˈmanda/ [ʔɐˈman̪.d̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -anda
• Syllabification: A‧man‧da

Amanda (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜋᜈ᜔ᜇ)

1. a female given name from English