| | |
Amandine, Amy, Mandy, Miranda |
Amanda is a Latin female gerundive name meaning "having to be loved", "deserving to be loved", or "worthy of love or loved very much by everyone"
The name "Amanda" first appeared in 1212 on a birth record from Warwickshire, England, and five centuries later the name was popularized by poets and playwrights. In the United States, "Amanda" slowly became more prominent from the 1930s to the 1960s, ranking among the top 200 baby names.
From 1976 to 1995, "Amanda" ranked in the ten most popular female baby names in the United States. The name was most popular from 1978 to 1992, when it ranked in the top 4. At its prime, in 1980, it was the second most popular. In 2009, "Amanda" ranked number 166. It was ranked among the top ten names given to girls born in Puerto Rico in 2009. The name is also currently popular in Sweden, where it ranked twentieth for girls born in 2009, down five places from the year 2008. It is also popular in Swedish-speaking families in Finland, where it ranked among the top ten names for girls born to ethnic Swedes.
Amanda, a pen-name of Esmé Wynne-Tyson
Amanda Abbington (born 1974), British actress
Amanda Adams
Amanda Barrie (born 1935), British actress
Amanda Bauer (born 1979), astronomer
Amanda Bell
Amanda Beard (born 1981), American swimmer
Amanda Bearse (born 1958), American actress, director and comedian best known for playing Marcy on Married...with Children
Amanda Blake (1929–1989), American actress who played Miss Kitty on Gunsmoke
Amanda Borden (born 1977), retired American gymnast
Amanda Bynes (born 1986), American actress
Amanda Byram (born 1973), Irish television presenter
Amanda Cajander (1827-1871), Finnish deaconess (d. 1871)
Amanda Carter (born 1964), Australian wheelchair basketball player
Amanda Clement (1888–1971), American baseball umpire
Amanda Coetzer (born 1971), South African former tennis player
Amanda Cooper
Amanda Crew (born 1986), Canadian actress
Amanda Donohoe (born 1962), British actress
Amanda Minnie Douglas (1831-1916), writer
Amanda Evora (born 1984), American pair skater
Amanda Forsyth (born 1966), Canadian cellist
Amanda González (born 1979), Spanish former field hockey player
Amanda Hearst (born 1984), American socialite, fashion model, and heiress to William Randolph Hearst's media empire
Amanda Hendrick (born 1990), Scottish model
Amanda Hesser (born 1972), American food writer, editor and cookbook author
Amanda Holden (writer) (born 1948), British music writer and translator
Amanda Holden (born 1971), British actress
Amanda Hopmans (born 1976), Dutch former tennis player
Amanda Kerfstedt (1835-1920), Swedish novelist and playwright
Amanda Kelly
Amanda Kimmel (born 1984), Actress, model, and animal rights activist
Amanda Knox (born 1987), American woman imprisoned in Italy for the murder of Meredith Kercher, later freed
Amanda Lang (born 1970), Canadian journalist and senior business correspondent for CBC News
Amanda Lear (born 1939), French singer, lyricist, composer, painter, TV presenter, actress and novelist
Amanda Lee (actress) (李蕙敏, born 1970), a pop singer and actress in Hong Kong
Amanda Leigh Moore (born 1984), birthname of singer and actress Mandy Moore
Amanda Nunes (born 1988), Brazilian mixed martial artist
Amanda Overmyer (born 1984), former American Idol contestant and singer
Amanda Palmer (born 1976), lead singer of the Dresden Dolls
Amanda Peet (born 1972), American actress
Amanda Pilke (born 1990), Finnish actress
Amanda Plummer (born 1957), American actress
Amanda Seyfried (born 1985), American actress
Amanda Todd
Amanda Simpson (born 1961), Senior Technical Adviser to the U.S. Department of Commerce and first openly transgender woman political appointee
Amanda Somerville (born March 7, 1979), American singer-songwriter and vocal coach, known primarily for her work with many European symphonic metal bands.
Amanda Swafford (born 1978), former contestant of America's Next Top Model, Cycle 3 and model
Amanda Tapping (born 1965), English-born Canadian actress
Amanda Vanstone (born 1952), former Australian politician, former ambassador to Italy
Amanda Weir (born 1986), American swimmer
Amanda, in Colley Cibber's comedy play Love's Last Shift and its sequel by John Vanbrugh, The Relapse, both from 1696
Amanda, Gabriella's sister in the Bert Diaries.
Amanda, in the 2010 Nikita TV series
Amanda (Highlander), an immortal in the Highlander universe
Amanda Beckett, from the movie Can't Hardly Wait
Amanda Bellows, a character on I Dream of Jeannie
Amanda Benson, a character from the movie Swindle played by Ariana Grande
Amanda Bentley, the title character of Candice F. Ransom's novel Amanda
Amanda Carrington, on the television show Dynasty
Amanda Clarke, birthname of the character Emily Thorne from the TV show Revenge
Amanda Duff, a character from Tiny Toon Adventures
Amanda Krueger, the mother of Freddy Krueger in the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise
Amanda Grayson, Spock's mother in the Star Trek series
Amanda Martin, née Dillon, from the ABC soap opera All My Children
Amanda Morgan (Dorsai), three characters in Gordon R. Dickson's Childe Cycle future history
Amanda Rollins, in the TV Show Law and Order: Special Victims Unit
Amanda Sefton, a witch in the Marvel Comics universe
Amanda Tanen, from the television show Ugly Betty
Amanda Toad, Slippy Toad's fiancée in the Star Fox series
Amanda Vale, in the Australian TV series Home and Away
Amanda Valenciano Libre, from the Metal Gear series
Amanda Vaughn, from the TV show Good Christian Belles
Amanda Waller, DC Comics villain
Amanda Wingfield, from the Tennessee Williams play The Glass Menagerie
Amanda Woodward (Melrose Place), in the TV series Melrose Place
Amanda Young, John Kramer's accomplice in the Saw franchise
Amanda Wikipedia (Text) CC BY-SA