Amy
given name · Latin script
Meaning: French/English name from Old French amie 'beloved friend', or a short form of Amélie/Amelia
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/eɪmi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Amy is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Singapore it is the 35th most common given name.
- IEIreland≈1 in 314(inferred from the name graph)
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 343
- AUAustralia≈1 in 382
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #131 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 663 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 314 (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,500,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
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.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Amy, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Amy counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈3,500,000 est. | ≈1 in 394 | — | Amy | 116 |
| US United States | #55 | 625,127 | 1 in 532 | 625K | Amy | 663 |
| GB United Kingdom | #68 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 383 | 26 | Amy | 391 |
| EG Egypt | #410 | ≈89,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Amy | 56 |
| CA Canada | #65 | ≈80,000 est. | ≈1 in 473 | 16 | Amy | 340 |
| AU Australia | #49 | ≈67,000 est. | ≈1 in 382 | 101 | Amy | 309 |
| HK Hong Kong | #58 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 343 | — | Amy | 112 |
| IE Ireland | #39 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 314 | 93 | Amy | 142 |
| SG Singapore | #35 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 501 | — | Amy | 130 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 120 sources across 60 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 625K | #65 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 1.2K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 505 | #65 |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2019 | 93 | #63 |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 85 | — |
| AU Australia | NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present) | 2012 | 81 | #90 |
| AU Australia | QLD BDM — Top 100 Baby Names Queensland (1960–present) | 2012 | 49 | — |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2024 | 9 | #474 |
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Amy?
- In the etymology graph, Aimee, Amie and Amada are forms of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Amy mean, and where does it come from?
- French/English name from Old French amie 'beloved friend', or a short form of Amélie/Amelia. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- 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.
- How do you pronounce Amy?
- A machine transcription gives /eɪmi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Amy have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.5 million people named Amy in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled amy.
- How common is the name Amy?
- In the United States, the national register counted 625,127 people named Amy in 2020, about 1 in 532 residents.
- How common is Amy compared with other names?
- In Singapore, Amy is the 35th most common given name of 52,448 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Amy?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/amyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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 35th most common given name in Singapore. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.