Amy

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Amy is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 56th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: French/English name from Old French amie 'beloved friend', or a short form of Amélie/Amelia.

rarermore common
  • IEIreland1 in 246◐
  • AUAustralia1 in 346
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 382

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

≈685K ●

across 9 countries

#252 ●

of 16M given names

6 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
598 ●

8.3M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 533 ◐

United States

Spellings & scripts●

AmyLatin · English●7.9M records
אמיHebrew · Hebrew●5K records
ЭмиCyrillic · Russian●1.4K records
เอมมThai · Thai●49 records
에이미Hangul · Korean●3 records
ΕμμυGreek · Greek●3 records

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Aimee in FR France, BR Brazil, MX Mexico and 4 more, Ayme in PE Peru and אמי in IL Israel.

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●

French/English name from Old French amie 'beloved friend', or a short form of Amélie/Amelia.

Sources 1

  • Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Amy is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#56624,6226.8M rec.1 in 533625KAmy598
GB United Kingdom#61541,141435K rec.—26Amy292
AU Australia#54335,074237K rec.—101Amy292
CA Canada#61174,669155K rec.—16Amy253
PH Philippines#29671,47359K rec.——Amy102
IT Italy#22639,85639K rec.—28Amy105
IE Ireland#1837,88019K rec.—93Amy132
DE Germany#52830,08828K rec.—3Amy166
FR France#43728,55036K rec.1 in 2.4K39KAimee222
MY Malaysia#21919,05918K rec.——Amy120
PE Peru—17,75227K rec.——Ayme61
EC Ecuador#46816,393△518 rec.1 in 1K16KAmy40

Roughly 625K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 533). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

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

Languages●

  • English7.9M81%
  • 469K5%
  • Spanish296K3%
  • Indonesian130K1%
  • French81K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English7,922,33181%
469,3435%
Spanish295,7923%
Indonesian129,9151%
French80,7221%

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◐

Amy is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name529K records spelled Amy20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, France, Brazil, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written Ämy, Ãmy, Àmy, Ämý, Ãmÿ

  • Indonesian given name152K records spelled Amy4 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay, Malagasy

    Also written 'Amy

  • Greek given name20K records spelled Amy3 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Αμυ, Άμυ

  • Thai given name12K records spelled Amy9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Thailand, Laos, United Kingdom

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written Ämy, Ämÿ, Amÿ, Ãmý, Âmÿ

  • Burmese given name11K records spelled Amy4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Myanmar (Burma), United Kingdom, Malaysia

    Also written Ámy, Amÿ, Amý

74 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●

Amy 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, Latin; the little beloved one; also a nickname

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

  • In Swedish, Amy är en engelsk form av franskans Aimée ’älskad ’. En känd namnbärare var Amy Winehouse (1983–2011), brittisk sångerska och låtskrivare. Formen Amie, som även kan vara bildad till franskans amie ’väninna’, förekommer också i Sverige.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • In French, Variante de style anglais de Aimée, de amatus, « aimée ».

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • In French, Forme anglo-saxonne d’Aimée; origine latine, « aimée ».

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • In English, From Old French aimée, ‘beloved’.

    as a nameIrish first names

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●

010K20K30K40K19001950200032K · 1975

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Amy in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–2025
Yearrecords
1880167
1881145
1882196
1883209
1884205
1885240
1886226
1887251
1888236
1889252
1890275
1891266
1892331
1893281
1894329
1895303
1896320
1897315
1898341
1899281
1900335
1901244
1902255
1903242
1904255
1905269
1906240
1907247
1908245
1909244
1910287
1911296
1912371
1913387
1914472
1915624
1916595
1917610
1918573
1919609
1920624
1921619
1922612
1923596
1924604
1925560
1926494
1927446
1928366
1929343
1930386
1931347
1932341
1933303
1934322
1935325
1936334
1937326
1938354
1939364
1940390
1941424
1942473
1943463
1944447
1945439
1946520
1947577
1948611
1949984
19501,184
19511,445
19521,750
19532,306
19542,676
19553,192
19563,546
19574,081
19584,823
19595,580
19605,973
19616,610
19627,185
19638,227
19649,576
196511,530
196612,998
196716,122
196817,090
196921,464
197025,212
197126,237
197225,873
197326,962
197429,566
197532,254
197631,339
197726,729
197823,213
197921,609
198019,833
198120,345
198218,799
198317,097
198415,988
198514,429
198613,452
198711,786
198810,034
19898,899
19908,463
19917,275
19926,340
19935,420
19944,691
19954,528
19964,067
19973,691
19983,485
19993,207
20003,173
20012,938
20023,095
20032,880
20043,116
20052,957
20062,747
20072,829
20082,541
20092,484
20102,283
20112,191
20122,238
20132,239
20142,193
20152,043
20161,846
20171,740
20181,511
20191,481
20201,340
20211,565
20221,415
20231,493
20241,349
20251,200

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Amy Tan, b. 1952Amy Goodman, b. 1957Amy Grant, b. 1960Amy Coney Barrett, b. 1972Amy Adams, b. 1974Lita, b. 1975Amy Acker, b. 1976Amy Lee, b. 1981Amy Winehouse, b. 1983Amy Macdonald, b. 1987
  • Amy Tanb. 1952USAmerican novelist
  • Amy Goodmanb. 1957USAmerican journalist (1957-)
  • Amy Grantb. 1960USAmerican singer-songwriter, musician (born 1960)
  • Amy Coney Barrettb. 1972USAmerican lawyer and jurist (born 1972)
  • Amy Adamsb. 1974ITAmerican actress (born 1974)
  • Litab. 1975USnot in their usual nameAmerican professional wrestler
  • Amy Ackerb. 1976USAmerican actress
  • Amy Leeb. 1981USAmerican singer-songwriter and musician (born 1981)
  • Amy Winehouseb. 1983GBBritish singer-songwriter (1983–2011)
  • Amy Macdonaldb. 1987GBScottish singer-songwriter

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 116 sources across 60 countries.

Official registers attesting Amy
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020625K#65
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202416K#129
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—8K#473
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20244.2K#352
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020102K#14,570
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020002K#13,641
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.9K#14,681
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—1.9K#1,091
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—1.3K#1,406
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20251.2K—
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.2K#2,597
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20201K—

Reference works 6

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

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

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,430 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Amy?
We estimate roughly 685 thousand people bear Amy (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Amy have the most bearers?
We estimate about 625 thousand people bear Amy in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled amy.
How common is Amy compared with other names?
In the United States, Amy is the 56th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.
Is Amy a male or female name?
Amy 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 Amy mean?
Recorded meaning: French/English name from Old French amie 'beloved friend', or a short form of Amélie/Amelia.
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About this data

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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, “Amy” — the 56th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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