Ami

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Ami is a given name, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom. It appears chiefly in English and Hindi, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: The name Ami (Hebrew: אָמִי, 'āmî) is often interpreted as "my people" or "trustworthy".

rarermore common
  • AUAustralia1 in 9K◐
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 9K
  • PHPhilippines1 in 10K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈22K ●

across 9 countries

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
376 ●

334K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 7.5K ◐

Ecuador

Spellings & scripts●

AmieLatin · English●237K records
아미Hangul · Korean●1.5K records
ԱմիArmenian · Armenian●0 records

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Amie in US United States, GB United Kingdom, PH Philippines and 18 more and 아미 in KR South Korea.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

The name Ami (Hebrew: אָמִי, 'āmî) is often interpreted as "my people" or "trustworthy". The name Amon (Hebrew: אָמוֹן, 'āmôn) can mean 'master workman', 'skilled artisan', or 'faithful', which is fitting for an ancestor of Solomon's servants who were involved in building projects.

Sources 1

  • Biblical Names Compiled Database

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Ami is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
GB United Kingdom#72322,94919K rec.—5Amie172
US United States—18,400253K rec.1 in 18K18KAmie376
PH Philippines—16,14014K rec.——Amie70
AU Australia#79612,86912K rec.—4Amie144
CA Canada—6,9836.5K rec.—3Amie117
IN India—3,4963.5K rec.—59Ami95
EC Ecuador—2,263△5 rec.1 in 7.5K2.3K—6
KR South Korea—1,8021.3K rec.——아미29
DE Germany—1,6911.8K rec.—listedAmi70
FR France—1,4601.6K rec.—41Amie114
MY Malaysia—1,4031.4K rec.——Amie38
IT Italy—1,2281.3K rec.—4Amie17

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English81K38%
  • Hindi29K14%
  • Japanese22K10%
  • 17K8%
  • Indonesian9.5K4%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English81,07138%
Hindi29,19914%
Japanese22,02510%
17,4768%
Indonesian9,5424%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Ami is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi given name33K records spelled Ami5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Malaysia

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Ämï, Âmî, Āmî

  • Japanese given name24K records spelled Ami2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Japan, United States, India, Malaysia

    Also written A-Mi

  • Spanish given name20K records spelled Ami25 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Mexico, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, French, Italian

    Also written Àmi, Ãmî, Amï, Âmî, Amí

  • a separate given name19K records spelled Ami3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Canada

    Also written Āmī, Amī

  • Indonesian given name15K records spelled Ami35 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, India, Malaysia, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Ãmï, Ãmį, 'Ami, Ämï, Amï

  • Hebrew given name8.0K records spelled Ami12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Israel, United States, India, Morocco

    Also written עמי, פעמי, Emi, Ãmî, Ëmî

  • Portuguese given name3.3K records spelled Ami27 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, India, United Kingdom

    Also written Amï, Àmi, Åmį, Ãmî, Ǎmĭ

75 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Ami is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, Japanese: friend; Hebrew: the lord of my people

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • In English, Initialism of acute myocardial infarction.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Japanese, Rōmaji transcription of あみ

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In dag, part. Amen. 1 . introductory particle you for yesterday’s favour (or hospitality). [Amii a sa ni labna bieyu bee

    as a wordDagbani Dictionary CD

  • In Basque, Bonito (pez). " Atuntxikia, amia, bonito, bonitulo" Izt C 205. "Petit thon" Hb . "( Thynnus pelamys ), bonito" Arzdi Peces. .

    as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

01002003004001960198020002020334 · 1975

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Ami in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1947–2025
Yearrecords
19475
19506
19518
19527
19535
19548
195516
195616
195717
195823
195914
196031
196133
196225
196337
196446
196567
196657
196794
196897
1969173
1970225
1971220
1972230
1973307
1974306
1975334
1976331
1977271
1978265
1979283
1980243
1981212
1982182
1983170
1984164
1985179
1986186
1987170
1988132
1989109
1990105
1991115
199282
199380
1994103
199584
199675
199771
199873
199964
200066
200158
200264
200366
200460
200589
200676
200769
200879
200964
201065
201153
201267
201351
201459
201540
201641
201743
201841
201946
202047
202161
202258
202374
202456
202529

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 77 years between 1947–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

17001800190020002100Ami Boué, b. 1794Ami Bera, b. 1965Ami Canaan Mann, b. 1969Ami James, b. 1972Ami Ayukawa, b. 1981Ami Suzuki, b. 1982Ami Koshimizu, b. 1986Dream Ami, b. 1988Ami Maeshima, b. 1997Ami Tōma, b. 2006

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 82 sources across 45 countries.

Official registers attesting Ami
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20208.5K#2,623
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020593#2,623
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—528#2,665
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—303#2,717
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—254—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020252—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020238#84,785
AL AlbaniaINSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts)—228#1,639
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010206#89,753
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000174#96,918
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—150#11,348
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022131—

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 668 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ami?
We estimate roughly 22 thousand people bear Ami (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Ami have the most bearers?
Ami is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled amie.
Where is Ami most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ami is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 7.5 thousand people — even though United Kingdom holds more of our records for it.
How common is Ami compared with other names?
In the United Kingdom, Ami is the 723rd most common given name of 369,273 given names recorded there.
Is Ami a male or female name?
Ami is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Ami mean?
Recorded meaning: The name Ami (Hebrew: אָמִי, 'āmî) is often interpreted as "my people" or "trustworthy".
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ami” — the 723rd most common given name in United Kingdom. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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