Amanda

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Female Name

Usage

Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
Faroese
Finnish
Icelandic

Origin and Meaning

Female form of Amandus ^{[1] [2]}

Related Names

Amanda	♀
Manda	♀
Mandi	♀
Mandis	♀
Manta	♀
Manti	♀
Mantu	♀

See also Gudmanda and Nanna and Amy

Name Days

Finland

26 October

Norway

26 October

Finland (Swedish Language)

26 October

Sweden

26 October

Grammar

- Faroese
Nominative:	Amanda
Accusative:	Amandu
Dative:	Amandu
Genitive:	Amandu

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Amanda
Accusative:	Amöndu
Dative:	Amöndu
Genitive:	Amöndu

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1735 ^[1]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[3]		22061	33296	0	0
Denmark[4]		4144	n.a.	0	n.a
Norway[5]		1673	2552	0	0
Finland[6]		n.a.	32122	0	0
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent statistics trend^[3][4][5][6]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[5]:

Sources: ^{[3] [4] [5] [6]}

References

1. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
2. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
3. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
4. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
5. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
6. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi