Fewer than five US girls were named Manda in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #458, reached in 1883. The most girls given the name in a single year was 102, in 1975. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and #3,844 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Manda in 131 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 10 babies. In all, 3,294 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 729 babies named Manda.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5 US girls were named Manda; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 5.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Amanda (792,774 babies since 1880) and Mandy (42,603 babies since 1880). The open nickname list we use links it to Mandy.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Icelandic. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.