Amanda

Etymology

From Latin Amanda, feminine form of the saint's name Amandus, gerund of amāre (“to love”): thus meaning "worthy of being loved" or "worthy of love". Taken into regular use as an English given name from 18th-century literature.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈmændə/

Proper noun

Amanda

1. A female given name.
   • 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'.

Anagrams

• amadan

Etymology

From Latin Amanda.

Proper noun

Amanda

1. A female given name

Etymology

From Latin Amanda.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɑmɑndɑ]
• Hyphenation: A‧man‧da

Proper noun

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.

   • 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.

Etymology

From Latin Amanda.

Proper noun

Amanda

1. A female given name.

Etymology

From Latin Amanda.

Proper noun

Amanda

1. A female given name.

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English Amanda.

Proper noun

Amanda

1. A female given name.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish Amanda.

Proper noun

Amanda

1. A female given name.

Etymology

From Latin Amanda.

Proper noun

Amanda f

1. A female given name.

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Amanda f

1. A female given name.

References

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

Etymology

From Latin Amanda.

Proper noun

Amanda

1. A female given name.

Proper noun

Amanda f

1. A female given name, equivalent to English Amanda

Etymology

From Latin Amanda.

Proper noun

Amanda f

1. A female given name.

Etymology

From Latin Amanda. First recorded in Sweden in 1735.

Proper noun

Amanda c (genitive Amandas)

1. A female given name.

References

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
• 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.