Amanda

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Amanda is a Latin female gerundive name meaning "deserving to be loved," "worthy of love," or "loved very much by everyone."^[1] Its diminutive form includes Mandy, Manda and Amy. It is common in countries where Germanic and Romance languages are spoken.

The name "Amanda" occasionally appears in Late Antiquity such as the Amanda who was the 'wife of the ex-advocate and ex-provincial governor Aper (q.v.); she cared for his estates and raised their children after he adopted the monastic life: "curat illa saeculi curas, ne tu cures”' [Paul. Nol. Epist. 44.4].^[2]

In England 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.^[3] In the United States, "Amanda" slowly became more prominent from the 1930s to the 1960s, ranking among the top 200 baby names.^[3]

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.^{[citation needed]} 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.^{[citation needed]}

People[]

• Amanda, pen-name of Esmé Wynne-Tyson (1898-1972), English actress and writer
• Amanda Abbington (born 1974), British actress
• Amanda Adams (born 1976), American author and archaeologist
• Amanda L. Aikens (1833-1892), American editor, philanthropist
• Amanda Austin (1859–1917), American painter and sculptor
• Mandy Barnett (born 1975), American country music singer
• Amanda Barrie (born 1935), British actress
• Amanda Bauer (born 1979), American astronomer
• Amanda Bell (born 1988), American mixed martial artist
• Amanda Beard (born 1981), American swimmer
• Amanda Bearse (born 1958), American actress, director and comedian, Marcy on Married...with Children
• Amanda Blake (1929–1989), American actress, Miss Kitty on Gunsmoke
• Amanda Borden (born 1977), American gymnast
• Amanda Boxer (born 1948), English actress
• Amanda Burton (born 1956), British actress
• Amanda Busick (born 1986), American sports reporter
• Amanda Bynes (born 1986), American actress
• Amanda Byram (born 1973), Irish television presenter
• Amanda Cajander (1827-1871), Finnish deaconess
• Amanda Carter (born 1964), Australian wheelchair basketball player
• Mandy Chessell (born c. 1965), British computer scientist
• Amanda Chetwynd, British mathematician and statistician
• Amanda Clapham (born 1990), English actress
• Mandy Clemens (born 1978), American former soccer player
• Amanda Clement (1888–1971), American baseball umpire
• Amanda Coetzer (born 1971), South African tennis player
• Amanda Cooper (born 1991), American mixed martial artist
• Amanda Crew (born 1986), Canadian actress
• Amanda Donohoe (born 1962), British actress
• Mandy Drennan (born 1988), Australian former Paralympic swimmer
• Amanda Minnie Douglas (1831–1916), writer
• Amanda Ruter Dufour (1822–1899), poet
• Amanda Evora (born 1984), American pair skater
• Amanda Figueras (born 1978), Spanish journalist
• Amanda Folsom (born 1979), American mathematician
• Amanda Forsyth (born 1966), Canadian cellist
• Amanda González (born 1979), Spanish field hockey player
• Amanda Gorman (born 1998), American poet and activist
• Mandy Hager (born 1960), New Zealand children's book author
• Amanda Hale (born 1982), British actress
• Amanda K. Hale, Canadian writer
• Amanda Bartlett Harris (1824–1917), American author and literary critic
• Amanda Hearst (born 1984), American socialite, fashion model, and heiress to William Randolph Hearst
• 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 tennis player
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• Mandy Johnstone (born 1972), Australian politician
• Amanda Kelly (born 1982), Scottish kickboxer and mixed martial artist
• Amanda Kerfstedt (1835–1920), Swedish novelist and playwright
• Amanda Kernell (born 1986), Swedish, Southern Sami director and screenwriter
• Amanda Kessel (born 1991), American ice hockey Olympic Gold Medalist
• 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 Leduc, Canadian writer
• Amanda Lee (actress) (born 1970), Hong Kong pop singer and actress
• Amanda Leighton (born 1993), American actress known for The Powerpuff Girls
• Amanda Lind (born 1980), Swedish politician
• Mandy Loots (born 1976), South African former Olympic swimmer
• Amanda Marchant (born 1988), one half of British reality TV twins Samanda
• Amanda H. Mercier (born 1975), American judge
• Amanda Miguel (born 1956), Argentinian singer
• Mandy Miller (born 1944), British actress, child star of the 1952 film Mandy
• Mandy Moore (born 1984), American singer-songwriter and actress
• Amanda Micheli, American filmmaker
• Amanda Nunes (born 1988), Brazilian mixed martial artist
• Amanda Overmyer (born 1984), American Idol contestant and singer
• Amanda Palmer (born 1976), lead singer of the Dresden Dolls
• Amanda Peet (born 1972), American actress
• Amanda Perez (born 1980), American R&B singer
• Amanda Peterson (1971-2015), American actress
• Amanda Pilke (born 1990), Finnish actress
• Amanda Plummer (born 1957), American actress
• Amanda Rylander (1832-1920), Swedish actress
• Amanda Seales (born 1981), American comedian, actress, DJ, recording artist and radio personality
• Amanda Seyfried (born 1985), American actress
• Amanda Setton (born 1985), American actress
• Amanda Schull (born 1978), American actress and ballet dancer
• Amanda Simpson (born 1961), technical adviser to the U.S. Department of Commerce and first openly transgender woman political appointee
• Amanda Smith (1837-1915), former slave
• Mandy Smith (born 1970), British pop singer, model and actress
• Mandy Smith (field hockey) (born 1972), New Zealand former Olympic field hockey player
• Amanda Somerville (born 1979), American singer-songwriter and vocal coach
• Amanda Stepto (born 1970), Canadian actress and DJ known for her role in the Degrassi franchise
• Amanda Tapping (born 1965), English-born Canadian actress
• Amanda Todd (1996-2012), Canadian teenager who committed suicide after being blackmailed
• Amanda Vanstone (born 1952), Australian politician, ambassador to Italy
• Mandy Ventrice (born 1985), American recording artist
• Amanda Wakeley (born 1962), British fashion designer
• Amanda Weir (born 1986), American swimmer

Fictional characters[]

• Amanda, a young lady in The Addams Family 2
• 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, 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 Brotzman, in the novels of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, as well as its television adaptation
• Amanda Carrington, on the television show Dynasty
• Amanda Clarke, birthname of the character Emily Thorne from the TV show Revenge
• Amanda De Santa, from 2013 video game Grand Theft Auto V
• Amanda Duff, a character from Tiny Toon Adventures
• Amanda Grayson, Spock's mother in the Star Trek series
• Amanda Griffith, the super-psychic main character in the Sentinel 10 romantic fantasy novels
• Amanda Harper, a character from the Escape Room franchise
• Amanda Hunsaker, a character in the 1987 American buddy cop action movie Lethal Weapon
• Amanda Killman, a blonde-haired-braced character from Bunsen Is a Beast
• Amanda King, character from TV-show "Scarecrow and Mrs. King", played by Kate Jackson
• Amanda Krueger, the mother of Freddy Krueger in the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise
• 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 Prendergast, a character in the 1993 American action film Falling Down
• 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 the Panda, the mascot of Window Maker
• 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 GCB
• Amanda Wingfield, from the Tennessee Williams play The Glass Menagerie
• Amanda Woodward, in the TV series Melrose Place
• Amanda Young, John Kramer's accomplice in the Saw franchise
• Amanda Zimm, a character in the TV series Ready or Not

Footnotes[]

Further reading[]

• Leducq, M. H. (1853). "On the Origin and Primitive Meaning of the French word Ange". Proceedings of the Philological Society. 6 (132).

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