Amy

Where Amy comes from

Anglicized form of Old French Amee (modern French Aimée), which was both a nickname and a form of the Latin name Amata (“beloved”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Amy
  • Latin
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #108 among girls — 167 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1974
    Amy Adams born
    American actress
  3. 1975
    Peak, #2
    32,254 babies named Amy — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1983
    Amy Winehouse born
    English singer-songwriter
  5. 1984
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #13.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Latin.
Namesakes
  • Amy Winehouse · English singer-songwriter, 1983–2011
  • Amy Adams · American actress, born 1974
  • Amy Lee · American singer, pianist and songwriter, born 1981
  • Amy Poehler · American actress, born 1971
  • Amy Macdonald · Scottish singer-songwriter, born 1987

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.