Ami

Where Ami comes from

Ami hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1947
    First appearance
    #5,295 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1975
    Peak, #525
    334 babies named Ami — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1984
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #909.
  4. 1989
    Ami Otaki born
    Japanese association football player
  5. 1992
    Ami Sugita born
    Japanese association football player
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Ami Otaki · Japanese association football player, born 1989
  • Ami Sugita · Japanese association football player, born 1992
  • Ami Boué · Austrian geologist, physician and botanist, 1794–1881
  • Ami Koshimizu · Japanese voice actress, born 1986
  • Ami Nakai · Japanese figure skater, born 2008

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.