Amey
surname · Latin script
Meaning: From the Old French personal name Ame, from Latin Amatus ‘beloved’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈeɪmi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Amey is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 71K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 144K
- TGTogo≈1 in 15K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 275 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
2,304 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Togo, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From the Old French personal name Ame, from Latin Amatus ‘beloved’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Amey 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 2,304 | 1 in 144K | 2.3K | Amey | 275 |
| KE Kenya | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Amey | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈920 est. | ≈1 in 71K | listed | Amey | 134 |
| TG Togo | ≈590 est. | ≈1 in 15K | 2 | — | 6 |
| TW Taiwan | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Amey | 7 |
| CR Costa Rica | 74 | 1 in 69K | 74 | — | 1 |
2,304 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Journal Officiel — Liste definitive des candidats (legislatives 2024). 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)
Amey 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, from Fr ami ‘friend’, or Fr Amé < Lat amatus ‘beloved’, or OFr Amée < Lat Amata; first attested William Amy 1219 AssY
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, Amatus ‘Beloved’, past part, of amare to love). Vars.: Amy, Amie. Cogns.: Fr.: A(i)me; Amez (Switzerland). Prov., Cat.: Amat. Sp., Port.: Amado. It.: Amato, Amati. Dims.: It.: Amatucci, Amatulli. Patrs.: Eng.: Amis. It.: D’Amato. Amezaga Basque: topographic name for someone who lived by an oak tree or in an oak wood, from ametz oak + the local suffix -aga.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In English, A female given name from Latin, an old spelling variant of Amy, no longer current.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mbb, father (reference)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In mbd, father
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- François Pierre Ameyb. 1768FRFrench general (1768-1850)
- Sunny Ameyb. 1928NZNew Zealand theatre director and educator
- Paul Ameyb. 1973NZtriathlete
- Vince Ameyb. 1975USAmerican-football player (1975-)
- Jessica Ameyb. 1976CACanadian swimmer
- Otis Ameyb. 1981USAmerican football player
- Blanco Brownb. 1985USnot in their usual nameAmerican rapper and singer
- Colin Ameyb. 2000CACanadian country singer
- Wisdom Ameyb. 2005ITItalian footballer (born 2005)
- Rinaldo AmeyITItalian association football player
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 38 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.3K | #13,251 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.1K | #13,606 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.1K | #13,233 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 74 | #1,760 |
| TG Togo | Journal Officiel — Liste definitive des candidats (legislatives 2024) | 2024 | 2 | #11 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- How do you pronounce Amey?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈeɪmi/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Amey mean, and where does it come from?
- From the Old French personal name Ame, from Latin Amatus ‘beloved’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Amey have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.3 thousand people named Amey, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled amey.
- How common is the name Amey?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,304 people named Amey in 2010, about 1 in 144 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ameyThe 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, “Amey”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.