Mandy

Where Mandy comes from

Apheretic form of Amanda + -y.
— Wiktionary's entry for Mandy
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Mandy through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #265 among girls, with 34 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1952
    Mandy Patinkin born
    American actor and singer
  3. 1974
    Around this time: Mandy by Barry Manilow
    Song, 1974 · Source
  4. 1977
    Peak, #94
    3,100 babies named Mandy, its best rank.
  5. 1977
    The comeback
    Back to #94 after sinking to #1,739 in 1954.
  6. 1984
    Mandy Moore born
    American actress and singer
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Amanda, popular as a formal given name in the UK in the 1960s and 1970s.
Namesakes
  • Mandy Moore · American actress and singer, born 1984
  • Mandy Patinkin · American actor and singer, born 1952
  • Mandy Minella · Luxembourgish female tennis player and politician, born 1985
  • Mandy Islacker · German footballer, born 1988
  • Mandy Capristo · German pop singer, born 1990

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record. Events show what happened around then, not why parents chose the name.