Amanda

== English == === Etymology === 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. Doublet of Aimee. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /əˈmændə/ (General American, æ-tensing) IPA(key): [əˈmɛəndə] Rhymes: -ændə === Proper noun === Amanda 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. A place in the United States: A township in Allen County, Ohio. A township and village therein, in Fairfield County, Ohio. A township in Hancock County, Ohio. ==== Related terms ==== Mandy ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === amadan == Danish == === Etymology === Derived from Latin Amanda. === Proper noun === Amanda c a female given name == Finnish == === Etymology === Derived from Latin Amanda. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈɑmɑndɑ/, [ˈɑ̝mɑ̝ndɑ̝] Rhymes: -ɑmɑndɑ Syllabification(key): A‧man‧da Hyphenation(key): A‧man‧da === Proper noun === Amanda a female given name ==== Declension ==== ==== Related terms ==== Manta ==== Statistics ==== Amanda is the 125th most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 5,773 female individuals (and as a middle name to 18,746 more, making it more common as a middle name), and also belongs as a middle name to 6 male individuals, according to August 2025 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland. == French == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin Amanda. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /a.mɑ̃.da/ === Proper noun === Amanda f a female given name ==== Related terms ==== Amandine == German == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin Amanda. === Pronunciation === === Proper noun === Amanda f a female given name == Indonesian == See various people named “Amanda” on the Indonesian Wikipedia: [2] === Etymology 1 === Borrowed from English Amanda. ==== Proper noun ==== Amanda a female given name from English === Etymology 2 === Borrowed from Spanish Amanda. ==== Proper noun ==== Amanda a female given name from Spanish == Italian == === Etymology === Derived from Latin Amanda. === Proper noun === Amanda f a female given name == Latvian == === Etymology === Derived from Latin Amanda. First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1893. === Proper noun === Amanda f a female given name === References === 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. == Norwegian Bokmål == === Etymology === Derived from Latin Amanda. === Proper noun === Amanda m or f a female given name == Norwegian Nynorsk == === Etymology === Derived from Latin Amanda. === Proper noun === Amanda f a female given name == Polish == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin Amanda. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /aˈman.da/ Rhymes: -anda Syllabification: A‧man‧da === Proper noun === Amanda f a female given name, equivalent to English Amanda ==== Declension ==== === Further reading === Amanda in Polish dictionaries at PWN == Portuguese == === Pronunciation === Homophone: amanda Hyphenation: A‧man‧da === Proper noun === Amanda f (plural Amandas) a female given name, equivalent to English Amanda == Serbo-Croatian == === Proper noun === Amanda f (Cyrillic spelling Аманда) a female given name ==== Declension ==== === Further reading === “Amanda”, in Portal suvremenih hrvatskih osobnih imena [Portal of contemporary Croatian personal names] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2018–2026 == Spanish == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin Amanda. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /aˈmanda/ [aˈmãn̪.d̪a] Rhymes: -anda Syllabification: A‧man‧da === Proper noun === Amanda f a female given name, equivalent to English Amande == Swedish == === Etymology === Derived from Latin Amanda. First recorded in Sweden in 1735. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /a²manda/ === Proper noun === Amanda c (genitive Amandas) a female given name === References === 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. == Tagalog == See various people named “Amanda” on the Tagalog Wikipedia: [5] === Etymology === Borrowed from English Amanda. === Pronunciation === (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ʔaˈmanda/ [ʔɐˈman̪.d̪ɐ] Rhymes: -anda Syllabification: A‧man‧da === Proper noun === Amanda (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜋᜈ᜔ᜇ) a female given name from English