Amanda
Amanda is ranked 496th among girls in 2024 (617 births). Its best rank was 2nd, in 1980.
- Rank in 2024
- #496down 13 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 6170.04% of girls
- Peak year
- 198741,786 births
- Best rank
- #2in 1980
- Since 1880
- 792,151people given the name
The story in the numbers
790,015 girls have been named Amanda in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1987, with 41,786 births — 2.4% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 617 births in 2024, against 41,786 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1986, and the 1980s alone account for 47%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 46 of them in the top 100 and 20 in the top 10.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 2,136 boys have also been given it, 0.27% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Amanda | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 3,280 | |
| 1890s | 3,872 | |
| 1900s | 2,923 | |
| 1910s | 3,643 | |
| 1920s | 3,125 | |
| 1930s | 1,965 | |
| 1940s | 2,760 | |
| 1950s | 5,473 | |
| 1960s | 17,173 | |
| 1970s | 123,925 | |
| 1980s | 369,728 | |
| 1990s | 191,131 | |
| 2000s | 46,644 | |
| 2010s | 11,076 | |
| 2020s | 3,297 |
In 1987, its biggest year
Amanda was the 3rd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1987 were Jessica, Ashley, Amanda, Jennifer and Sarah. See all of 1987.
Names that rose and fell with Amanda
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Sharikapeak 1987
- Jaclynpeak 1988
- Eboniepeak 1982
- Jessicapeak 1987
- Tarahpeak 1985
- Casiepeak 1983
- Ebonypeak 1982
- Shakitapeak 1986
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.