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Manda

Girls' name

Who/which is to be loved, through Amanda

Manda has been given to 3,294 babies in the U.S. since 1880. 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 1975, with 102 recorded.

Babies named Manda, 2016

1 in 734,000

Manda over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Manda: meaning, origin, and history

Who/which is to be loved, through Amanda

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Manda means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Manda is used in English and Old Czech.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Amanda.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Old Czech, Manda is pronounced /ˈmanda/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,294 girls were recorded with the name Manda between 1880 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 102 in 1975; its best national rank was #458 in 1883.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Manda?

Manda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2016
1 in 734,000
5 of 3,669,531 births
Among girls only
1 in 354,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2016
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
508,706 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Manda 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 2016 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 508,706 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Manda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mandas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Manda was born before 1972 — so the typical Manda is around 53 today.

Median birth year
1972
About 53 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
22.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
7.5%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,994
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 22.1% of all recorded uses (729).

Is Manda 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
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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 1975 (102)
Years since peak
50
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#458
1883

Spellings of Manda

Manda is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 20.5% against Manda's 0.05%.

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.

Where Manda is used

Across 1910–2025, Manda was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 199,647 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Kentucky1 in 33,333
  2. 2Indiana1 in 100,000
  3. 3Ohio1 in 100,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 100,000
  5. 5California1 in —
  6. 6Colorado1 in —
  7. 7Florida1 in —
  8. 8Georgia1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Manda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Manda around the world

Where Manda ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1982–2025
    #4,953
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1960–1994
    #716
    in 1994

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Manda 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
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Best rank ever
#458
1883
Peak year
1975
102 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2016
All-time count
3,294
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Manda

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

ManalManhaMandiManyaRandaManonManarKendaHindaMandieManaBrindaMannatMandyManuelaMannaFondaTondaCindaManviJacindaManaalManiyahManuel

Names with a curve like Manda

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Manda, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

CorrieAmmieTravisJammieChristenaShaunnaSheritaRacheleAudreaJennifferShandraTiffiny

Sibling names for Manda

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

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