Given name & surname
Amand
“lovable”
Amand is a masculine given name from Latin. It is used in French and Walloon.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1976. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Amand through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 181
- 0 boys · 181 girls
- Most popular year
- 1986
- 21 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 1994. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 21 in 1986. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 382 as a first name in 2020; 152 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Amand’s family of names
In French usage, Amand has a diminutive in Mandy. In English usage, Amand has a later derivative in MAND. In French usage, Amand has a related form in AMANDIO.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 6
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Amand
- Amand BazardFrench economist and socialist1791–1832
- Amandus of Strasbourg290–355
- Amand StruveRussian general (1835-1898)
- Amand GoeggGermany politician (1820-1897)
- Amand VanderhagenBelgian conductor, clarinettist and music educator1753–1822
- Amand DalemBelgian politician (1938-2018)
- Amand TheisGerman footballerborn 1949
- Amand von Schweiger-LerchenfeldAustrian author (1846–1910)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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