Amy
Amy is a girl's name that peaked in 1975, when it was the 2nd most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 257th. About 641,000 Amys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 48.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Amy boys named Amy
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 703,484
- Estimated living today
- 641,000
- Median age today
- 48
- Peak year
- 1975
- Best rank
- 2nd
- Rank in 2025
- 257th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 701,631 / 1,853
How old the living Amys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 703,484 babies given the name since 1880, about 641,000 are alive — 91 in every hundred. Roughly 33,000 of them are children and 34,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1977 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Latin
Anglicized form of Old French Amee (modern French Aimée), which was both a nickname and a form of the Latin name Amata (“beloved”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Amys
- Amy Winehouse (1983–2011)British singer-songwriter
- Amy Adams (born 1974)American actress
- Amy Lee (born 1981)American singer-songwriter and musician
- Amy Poehler (born 1971)American actress
- Amy Macdonald (born 1987)Scottish singer-songwriter
- Amy Acker (born 1976)American actress
- Amy Johnson (1903–1941)pioneering English aviator
- Amy Coney Barrett (born 1972)American lawyer and jurist
People named Amy with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Amy is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Amy is most concentrated in Wisconsin (1.5×), Vermont (1.5×), Minnesota (1.4×), Iowa (1.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1975
The most popular girls’ names the year Amy peaked:
Amy elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Amy | 52,606 | 9th |
| Scotland girls | Amy | 14,338 | 2nd |
| Ireland girls | Amy | 14,077 | 4th |
| New Zealand girls | Amy | 7,061 | 4th |
| France girls | Amy | 4,515 | 288th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Amy | 3,027 | 4th |
| Belgium girls | Amy | 2,110 | 83rd |
| Switzerland girls | Amy | 1,410 | 68th |
| Italy girls | Amy | 1,194 | — |
| Norway girls | Amy | 394 | 269th |
| Poland girls | Amy | 207 birth registrations | 268th |
| France boys | Amy | 10 | 2,496th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Amy: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Amy | 1,186 | 0.095% | 58th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Amy | 166 | 0.038% | 138th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Amy | 56 | 0.086% | 45th |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Amy | 2 | 0.054% | 15th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Amy is most concentrated in Schwyz, where 0.12% of children were given it – 43 of them.
Amy: rank by region
In 2025, Amy was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Amy | 416 | 12 |
| Wallonia | Amy | 300 | 9 |
In 2023, Amy was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Amy | 8 | 1 |
In 2022, Amy was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolnośląskie | Amy | 247 | 2 |
In 2024, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Amy appears in the lists for Province of Namur (68th), Province of Antwerp (177th) and Province of East Flanders (190th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Amy by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 141 | 104th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Amy among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Amy | 8,015 | 9,019 |
| Finland girls | Amy | 204 | 257 |
| the Netherlands boys | Amy | — | 7 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Amy lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 1,164 women called Amy were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lleida | Amy | 40 | 0.180 | 533 |
| Palmas, Las | Amy | 64 | 0.109 | 928 |
| Tarragona | Amy | 41 | 0.094 | 868 |
| Balears, Illes | Amy | 59 | 0.094 | 818 |
| Zaragoza | Amy | 40 | 0.079 | 795 |
| Girona | Amy | 30 | 0.072 | 1,021 |
Listed in 38 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 14 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Amy against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.