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Amanda vs Amarianna

American parents have registered 792,774 Amandas since 1880, against 581 Amariannas. Amanda is still ahead, with 601 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Amanda against Amarianna, 1880 to 2025 0 12.5k 25k 37.5k 50k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Amanda Amarianna

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Amanda has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2019, when Amanda had 770 and Amarianna had 37.

Side by side

  Amanda Amarianna
Total US births 792,774581
Most in one year 41,90937
Babies in 2025 60116
Estimated living today 748,000580
Median age today 3911
Peak year 19872019
Best rank 3rd girls3,923rd girls
Rank in 2025 493rd6,838th
First recorded 18801999
Girls / boys 790,638 / 2,136581 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Amandas alive today are over 39; half the Amariannas are over 11. That is 28 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Amanda and Amarianna.