Amy is an English name based on the Old French word ‘amée’ meaning ‘beloved’. Amee and Aimee are the French versions of this name.
Amy is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
The name Amy 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, Amy ranks 161. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 11 were named Amy. In total, there are currently 685,830 people – children, adults and seniors – named Amy living in the United States, which is approximately 0.20 % of the entire population.
History tends to focus on the most famous and best. But even those who play second fiddle leave their mark: Amy is one of those names without which the orchestra would be incomplete. In fact, Amy has reached the SmartGenius top ranking #2 more than once, although the last time was some while ago, towards the end of the past century in 1976. But even though the peak of its popularity was a few decades ago, the name Amy has been given to newborn girls every year since records began. Amy is of exceptional enduring popularity, conveying the special vibes of the 80s and 90s of the 20th century.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Amy was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
The peak of popularity of the name Amy is already some time ago, but the name has nevertheless arrived in the 21st century. In 2022 it ranked at #197 in our statistics - maybe a far cry from the time when your grandparents and parents were much younger and Amy made it into the top ten more than once, but: traditional names often turn out to be parennial favorites – so, perhaps it's only a matter of time before Amy reaches a new high.
Wherever you go, wherever you live – there’s a good chance to meet Amy. Because: There are women and girls named Amy in every state in the USA. This may sound quite unspectacular at first, but in fact, of the more than 50,000 different female first names that occur in the USA, just 537 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Amy is definitely something very special. In some regions it even makes it into the top 100 of the most popular female first names, for example in Utah, where Amy ranks on place 13. The greatest chance of meeting Amy, however, is in Wyoming, where one in 147 girls and women bears this beautiful name – that is far above average – in the entire USA it is only one in 225 women and girls and in Mississippi, where the name is least represented in relation to the population, you even have to ask an average of 332 women and girls for their name before you once get Amy as an answer.
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 Amy 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 Amy 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 Amy, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Amy
Amy
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
M
Y
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
Y
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. Amy sounds like this:
