Amanda is the gerundive of the Latin amare (to love) — "worthy of love, lovable." A top-15 US baby name from 1976 to 1995, peaking at #3 in 1978-1979 and again in 1984. First-ever National Youth Poet Laureate (2017). Time 100 Most Influential People (2021). Amanda Knox (born 1987) — American exoneree. Amanda Peet (The Whole Nine Yards 2000). Amanda Plummer (Pulp Fiction 1994).
Amanda does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Amanda reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.