as a First Name
Anglicized form of Old French Amee ‘beloved’. This originated in part as a vernacular nickname, in part as a form of Latin Amata. The latter is ostensibly the feminine form of the past participle of amare ‘to love’, but in fact it may have had a different, pre-Roman, origin; it was borne in classical mythology by the wife of King Latinus, whose daughter Lavinia married Aeneas and (according to the story in the Aeneid) became the mother of the Roman people.
| 50th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds of thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 899,831
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Iowa
- has the most people named Amy per capita
- 1975
- marked the height of its popularity
99.94%
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4%
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55+
69%
30-54
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19%
13-29
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8%
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