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Amy
Pronounced /ˈeɪ.mi/
Rank in 2024
#228
Born in 2024
1,344
Peak year
1975 · #2
Origin
Latin
Also recorded for boys:7 in 2024 (#10,823)
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 1,344 girls were named Amy, about 1 in every 1,200.
- It peaked in 1975 with 32,253 babies, ranked #2.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 700,417 girls have been named Amy since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Amy per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.6Greatest1901–27
- 0.3Silent1928–45
- 2.0Boomers1946–64
- 14.4Gen X1965–80
- 6.1Millennials1981–96
- 1.6Gen Z1997–12
- 1.0Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 11,620 babies, 0.57 per 1,000. Silent: 6,747 babies, 0.33 per 1,000. Boomers: 70,846 babies, 1.98 per 1,000. Gen X: 368,033 babies, 14.41 per 1,000. Millennials: 171,615 babies, 6.08 per 1,000. Gen Z: 45,852 babies, 1.58 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 20,200 babies, 0.99 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Anglicized form of Old French Amee (modern French Aimée), which was both a nickname and a form of the Latin name Amata (“beloved”).
- A female given name from Latin.
- Origin
- Latin
- Say it
- /ˈeɪ.mi/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Amy, CC BY-SA 4.0.