Ami is a female first name, but it has increasingly been given to boys for a number of years.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Ami is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 3 out of 100,000 girls have been named Ami. In the SmartGenius ranking, Ami is #2,862 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Ami.
You may not know anyone named Ami, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 36 states are home to women and girls named Ami. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few women and girls named Ami living in one state or another. If your name is Ami and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In California, which has the most people named Ami relative to the population, you still have to ask 17,775 women and girls their names before you hear Ami as an answer just once.
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 only three letters, the name Ami is obviously very short. In fact, only 1.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly three letters. Just 0.2% of all first names are even shorter and only have two letters, while nearly 99% of all boys’ and girls’ names use more than three 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 Ami 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 Ami, you can simply say:
Apple
Mouse
Igloo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Ami
Ami
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
M
I
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
M
I
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. Ami sounds like this:
