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Amanda
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amanda
English
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Etymology
en la Amanda, feminine form of the saint's name Amandus genus, from la amandus, future passive participle of la amāre to love: thus meaning "who/which is to be loved". Taken into regular use as an English given name from 18th-century literature. en Aimee.
Pronunciation
en /əˈmændə/
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Back ache-Amanda.wav
en [əˈmɛəndə] GA,æ-tensing
en ændə 3
Proper noun
~
en female 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.
en 1994 Caroline Graham Written in Blood 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'.
en Vittoria Elliott The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Government Takeover WIRED (magazine) WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-government-young-engineers/ 2025-02-02 https://web.archive.org/web/20250202191023/https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-government-young-engineers/ 2025-02-02 Both Bobba and Coristine are listed in internal OPM records reviewed by WIRED as “experts” at OPM, reporting directly to Amanda Scales, its new chief of staff.
en place c/USA:
en twp co/Allen County s/Ohio.
en twp/and/village therein, in co/Fairfield County s/Ohio.
en twp co/Hancock County s/Ohio.
Derived terms
en Mandy
Translations
female given name
Bulgarian: bg Ама́нда f
Danish: da Amanda c
Finnish: fi Amanda
French: fr Amanda f
German: de Amanda f
Greek: el Αμάντα f
Italian: it Amanda f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb Amanda m f
Nynorsk: nn Amanda f
Polish: pl Amanda f
Portuguese: pt Amanda f
Russian: ru Ама́нда f-an
Spanish: es Amanda f
Swedish: sv Amanda c
Anagrams
en aaadmn amadan
Danish
da:
Etymology
da la Amanda.
Proper noun
c
da female
Finnish
fi:
Etymology
From fi la Amanda, a feminine form of Amandus genus (a saint's name).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
fi female
fi 1990 w:fi: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. Such rich names for such poor children, as we used to say. The only rich thing a poor person had was the name they could give ot their child. I knew very well a southwestern family living off the land, where their Finnish names were followed by Wilhelmina, Aleksandra, Amanda, even Dagmar. I have my doubts about whether either of the parents even could pronounce those correctly.
fi 1996 w:Raija Siekkinen Kaunis nimi 80–81 Otava 951-1-14605-X 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. But she looked at the girl: odd name, Siiri, even if old names are in these days, and small Annis and Amandas fought over the plastic toys in their sandboxes; but this girl was not of that generation.
Declension
Amand a
Related terms
fi Manta
Statistics
dvv_20250813 6 5773 18746 125
References
French
fr:
Etymology
fr :lbor la:Amanda
fr la Amanda.
Pronunciation
fr LL-Q150 (fra)-Lyokoï-Amanda.wav <<France>> (<<Lyon>>)
fr LL-Q150 (fra)-Mecanautes-Amanda.wav France
Proper noun
f
fr female
Related terms
fr Amandine
German
de:
Etymology
de :bor la:Amanda
de la Amanda.
Pronunciation
de LL-Q188 (deu)-Jeuwre-Amanda.wav
Proper noun
de proper noun f
de female
Indonesian
id: See various people named “Amanda” on the Indonesian Wikipedia:
Etymology 1
id en Amanda.
Proper noun
id female English
Etymology 2
id es Amanda.
Proper noun
id female Spanish
Italian
it:
it:+ (disambigua)
Etymology
it la Amanda.
Proper noun
f
it female
Latvian
la:
Etymology
lv la Amanda. First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1893.
Proper noun
lv proper noun f
lv female
References
Klāvs Siliņš: Latviešu personvārdu vārdnīca. Riga "Zinātne" 1990, 5-7966-0278-0
Population Register of Latvia: Amanda was the only given name of 1876 persons in Latvia on May 21st 2010.
Norwegian Bokmål
nb:
Etymology
nb la Amanda.
Proper noun
nb proper noun mf
nb female
Norwegian Nynorsk
nn:
Etymology
nn la Amanda.
Proper noun
nn proper noun f
nn female
Polish
pl:+ (imię)
Etymology
pl :lbor la:Amanda + 1
Pronunciation
Pl-Amanda.ogg
Proper noun
f
pl female Amanda
Declension
Further reading
Portuguese
pt:
Pronunciation
pt amanda
pt A man da
Proper noun
f Amandas
pt female Amanda
Serbo-Croatian
Proper noun
f
sh female
Declension
Amand
Further reading
Spanish
es:
Etymology
es :lbor la:Amanda + 1
Pronunciation
Proper noun
f
es female Amande
Swedish
sv:+ (namn)
sv:
Etymology
sv la Amanda. First recorded in Sweden in 1735.
Pronunciation
sv /a²manda/
sv LL-Q9027 (swe)-Moonhouse-Amanda.wav
Proper noun
c
sv female
References
Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, 91-21-10937-0
Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, 9119551622: 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
Etymology
tl :bor en:Amanda + 1
Pronunciation
Proper noun
+
tl female English