Inspired by the French spelling Aimée, Aimee is a variant of Amy, which was already popular in 16th-century England. It developed from the Latin name Amata, which was inspired by the word ‘amata’ meaning ‘beloved’.
Aimee is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
The name Aimee isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Aimee ranks 987. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Aimee. In the entire USA, approximately 50,146 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Aimee. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
Inspired by the French spelling Aimée, Aimee is a variant of Amy, which was already popular in 16th-century England. It developed from the Latin name Amata, which was inspired by the word ‘amata’ meaning ‘beloved’.
Aimee is known in the US... since the 19th century, but is quite rare except for a short burst of popularity in the 1970s.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their daughter Aimee annualy. This means that there have been girls named Aimee who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus women named Aimee have consistently been special. The name became especially popular in the last quarter of the last century and there was one year in particular when parents of Generation X and Generation Y rather came up with the idea of naming their child Aimee: in 1976, it holds its present record of #120 in the ranking of the most popular girls' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Aimee was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Aimee has never been ranked higher than #120. In 2022, she rivaled the 1,337 names that preceded her on the list. In total, 148 girls named Aimee were born in that year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Aimee were born, there have been 880 newborns who received this name.
The name Aimee may not be in the top rankings of the most popular girls’ names, but it is one of the few female given names, along with only 536 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Aimee is apparently especially popular in Utah. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular women’s names here either, one in 1,360 women in Utah is called Aimee. In total, that’s 859 women who feel addressed when the name Aimee is shouted loudly across Utah and who ensure that their name makes it to #351 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common female names in this nice state. If you asked all women in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Aimee as the answer a total of 50,146 times. This places Aimee at #513 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular women’s names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living women across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Aimee as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is the most popular first letter for girls’ names. 11.8% of all common girls’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in girls' names is S.
With five letters, the name Aimee is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 11.8% of all girls' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs over three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the girls' names that begin with the letter A, the name Ashley is the most common.
If your name is Aimee and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Aimee, you can simply say:
Apple
Igloo
Mouse
Elephant
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Aimee
Aimee
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
I
M
E
E
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
A
I
M
E
E
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Aimee sounds like this:
