Amandah

Girls' name

Who/which is to be loved, through Amanda

Amandah has been given to 44 babies in the U.S. since 1984. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1989, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Amandah, 2008

1 in 786,000

Amandah over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Amandah: meaning, origin, and history

Who/which is to be loved, through Amanda

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Amandah means

Amandah belongs to the name family reached through Amandah → Amanda. Its meaning is “who/which is to be loved”.

Origin, language, and formation

Amandah is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Amanda.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 44 girls were recorded with the name Amandah between 1984 and 2008. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1989; its best national rank was #10,473 in 1984.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Amandah?

Amandah had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2008, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2008: 1 in 786,000; 5 of 3,930,727 births
Among girls only: 1 in 378,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2008: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 544,916 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Amandah sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2008 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 544,916 children born in 2008 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Amandah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Amandahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Amandah was born before 1992 — so the typical Amandah is around 33 today.

Median birth year: 1992; About 33 years old
Biggest decade: 1990s; 38.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 44; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1990s — 38.6% of all recorded uses (17).

Is Amandah rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1989 (6)
Years since peak: 36; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Steady; 8.3% average annual change
Best rank ever: #10,473; 1984

Spellings of Amandah

Amandah is not the most common spelling — Amanda is, with 95.0% against Amandah's <0.01%.

Amanda95.0%790,638
Alannah0.89%7,392
Amayah0.68%5,653
Aminah0.67%5,536
Alanah0.51%4,226
Amariah0.45%3,763
Manda0.40%3,294
Amarah0.32%2,641

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Amandah by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #10,473; 1984
Peak year: 1989; 6 that year
First recorded: 1984
Last recorded: 2008
All-time count: 44
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Amandah

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Amariee Amalina Amalyah Amaiia Amaliyah Amairah Amarae Amaliah Amarion Amaliya Amandia Amariel Amalthea Amareli Amarrah Amabella Amaara Amarrie Amanita Amaru Amayla Amanah Amaryah Amaani

Sibling names for Amandah

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Stephani Felisha Jalisa Britany Chantelle Leandra Lissette Kala

For a brother

Elizabeth Kelsey Garrick Lauren Hakeem Demario Jerrell Laron

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