Entry № 6378 · English origin

Mandy Mandy — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MAN-dee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Worthy of love (Mandy Moore, This Is Us; Barry Manilow's Mandy)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "worthy of love (mandy moore, this is us; barry manilow's mandy)".

Mandy is the English diminutive of Amanda — from the Latin amandus (worthy of love, lovable). Played Rebecca Pearson on NBC's This Is Us (2016-2022) for six seasons — Emmy, Golden Globe, and SAG Award nominations. Mandy Patinkin is male (The Princess Bride, Homeland).

Worthy of love. Mandy Moore in This Is Us + Tangled; Barry Manilow's 1974 #1 hit.

The name in its native script.

Mandy
Transliteration
Mandy
Pronunciation
/ ˈmæn.di /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Mandy stands.

Mandy 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.

Mandys before her.

Real people
Mandy Moore
American singer and actress.
born 1984
Mandy Rice-Davies
British showgirl.
1944 – 2014
In fiction
Rebecca Pearson
This Is Us.
2016
Mandy
Manilow's Mandy.
1974

Names connected to Mandy.

The number behind Mandy.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Mandy reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.