How popular is “Amanda” in the USA?

Number of people named “Amanda” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Amanda” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Amanda” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Amanda” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Amanda” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Amanda” by birth year

This chart shows how “Amanda” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1880	241	0.001196125	241		100%
1881	263	0.001364901	263		100%
1882	288	0.001300032	288		100%
1883	287	0.00132291	287		100%
1884	337	0.001384205	337		100%
1885	339	0.001407492	339		100%
1886	370	0.001449184	370		100%
1887	338	0.001366253	338		100%
1888	404	0.001349032	404		100%
1889	413	0.001429333	413		100%
1890	392	0.001300593	392		100%
1891	371	0.001294157	371		100%
1892	455	0.001360752	455		100%
1893	387	0.001189953	387		100%
1894	418	0.001234167	418		100%
1895	431	0.00122785	431		100%
1896	367	0.001026619	367		100%
1897	354	0.001020299	354		100%
1898	371	0.000972592	371		100%
1899	331	0.000975728	326	5	97%
1900	377	0.000837298	377		100%
1901	317	0.000916683	317		100%
1902	301	0.000778315	301		100%
1903	247	0.000647954	247		100%
1904	294	0.000728652	294		100%
1905	311	0.000733626	311		100%
1906	260	0.000606837	260		100%
1907	285	0.00061239	285		100%
1908	260	0.000532079	260		100%
1909	271	0.0005301	271		100%
1910	278	0.000470619	278		100%
1911	280	0.000434595	280		100%
1912	310	0.000313745	310		100%
1913	346	0.00030428	346		100%
1914	375	0.000264766	375		100%
1915	412	0.000224839	412		100%
1916	421	0.000217637	421		100%
1917	445	0.000221752	445		100%
1918	397	0.000182856	397		100%
1919	379	0.0001796	379		100%
1920	379	0.000167503	379		100%
1921	392	0.000167916	392		100%
1922	341	0.000148963	341		100%
1923	362	0.000157222	362		100%
1924	341	0.00014318	341		100%
1925	309	0.00013243	309		100%
1926	311	0.000135459	311		100%
1927	234	0.00010089	234		100%
1928	247	0.000109247	247		100%
1929	209	0.00009534	209		100%
1930	196	0.000088158	196		100%
1931	209	0.000099316	209		100%
1932	213	0.000100886	213		100%
1933	200	0.000100028	200		100%
1934	189	0.000091005	189		100%
1935	213	0.000101919	213		100%
1936	192	0.000092415	192		100%
1937	176	0.000082603	176		100%
1938	192	0.000086777	192		100%
1939	185	0.00008396	185		100%
1940	218	0.000094672	218		100%
1941	223	0.000091528	223		100%
1942	295	0.000107987	295		100%
1943	284	0.000100618	284		100%
1944	238	0.000088473	238		100%
1945	280	0.000105544	280		100%
1946	273	0.000085438	273		100%
1947	310	0.000086056	310		100%
1948	306	0.000088631	306		100%
1949	333	0.000095559	333		100%
1950	380	0.000108467	380		100%
1951	409	0.000111028	409		100%
1952	421	0.000110848	416	5	98%
1953	427	0.000110804	427		100%
1954	428	0.000107519	428		100%
1955	453	0.000112825	453		100%
1956	639	0.000154983	639		100%
1957	670	0.000159442	670		100%
1958	792	0.000191586	792		100%
1959	859	0.00020659	859		100%
1960	976	0.000234965	976		100%
1961	1056	0.000254931	1056		100%
1962	948	0.000234923	948		100%
1963	1039	0.000262493	1034	5	99%
1964	1275	0.000327965	1275		100%
1965	1654	0.000456219	1649	5	99%
1966	2339	0.000672967	2331	8	99%
1967	2671	0.000786769	2659	12	99%
1968	2437	0.000721345	2431	6	100%
1969	2829	0.000814025	2814	15	99%
1970	3557	0.000986271	3546	11	99%
1971	4141	0.00120646	4130	11	99%
1972	4193	0.001334078	4181	12	99%
1973	5645	0.001871134	5626	19	99%
1974	7498	0.002466448	7473	25	99%
1975	12701	0.004206473	12656	45	99%
1976	15656	0.005159674	15589	67	99%
1977	18342	0.005774291	18280	62	99%
1978	20598	0.006489869	20519	79	99%
1979	32036	0.009629095	31925	111	99%
1980	35897	0.010421524	35811	86	100%
1981	34473	0.009965095	34373	100	99%
1982	34322	0.009784029	34214	108	99%
1983	33853	0.009774671	33750	103	99%
1984	34022	0.009751903	33913	109	99%
1985	39199	0.01098285	39056	143	99%
1986	40661	0.011431011	40532	129	99%
1987	41909	0.011623263	41786	123	99%
1988	39581	0.010711919	39459	122	99%
1989	36968	0.009615947	36834	134	99%
1990	34509	0.008730979	34413	96	99%
1991	28952	0.007432614	28896	56	100%
1992	25090	0.006531689	25039	51	100%
1993	20846	0.005529034	20811	35	100%
1994	18760	0.005046194	18718	42	100%
1995	16386	0.004474415	16354	32	100%
1996	14004	0.003839663	13980	24	100%
1997	12267	0.003383301	12243	24	100%
1998	10942	0.002974819	10928	14	100%
1999	9764	0.0026433	9749	15	100%
2000	8569	0.002266989	8558	11	100%
2001	6990	0.001867291	6979	11	100%
2002	6152	0.001645672	6145	7	100%
2003	5363	0.001410455	5354	9	100%
2004	4710	0.001232686	4691	19	99%
2005	4106	0.001067923	4097	9	100%
2006	3372	0.000852335	3362	10	99%
2007	3054	0.000763942	3048	6	100%
2008	2448	0.000622795	2448		100%
2009	1962	0.000513589	1962		100%
2010	1664	0.000450248	1664		100%
2011	1418	0.000387666	1413	5	99%
2012	1236	0.000337948	1236		100%
2013	1075	0.000294871	1075		100%
2014	1060	0.000285994	1060		100%
2015	1033	0.00027912	1033		100%
2016	1005	0.000273939	1005		100%
2017	966	0.000270119	966		100%
2018	855	0.000243181	855		100%
2019	769	0.000221554	769		100%
2020	695	0.000208048	695		100%
2021	660	0.000194808	660		100%
2022	691	0.000204248	691		100%
2023	634	0.000191472	634		100%
2024	617	0.000185369	617		100%

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