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Amy

Girls' name · Late 20th-century

Living in the US
~646,900 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank
#257 among girls
Births in 2025
1,200 703,484 since 1880
Typical age
49 years, median

Amy popularity over time

Amy rank by birth year, 1880–2025Amy ranked #108 in 1880 and #257 in 2025. Its best rank in the period was #2, in 1973.#10#100#257best #2 in 197318901920195019802010
Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1880–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

More children were named Amy in 1975 than in any other year — 32,343 of them. It is present from 1880, the first year of the record. Amy has spent 41 years inside the national top 100.

The 2025 position is #257, on 1,200 births. Compared with 2015, births are down 41%. Year on year the rank dropped by 30.

Babies named Amy per yearPeaks at 32,343 births in 1975.32,343 in 1975018901920195019802010
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Amy?

Roughly 646,900 Amys are alive in the US right now. That is out of 703,484 recorded births since 1880.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Amy?

Half of living Amys are older than 49, half younger. The 1970s produced the largest surviving cohort. By the site’s era rules that makes Amy a late 20th-century name.

Your Amy

Ages of living people named AmyHalf of living Amys are older than 49 and half younger.median 49020406080100
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Where Amy is most common

Amy is 2.5× as common in District of Columbia as it is nationally. Maryland, Florida and New Jersey follow.

Where Amy is used more than average5 states use the name Amy more than the national average.Alaska: not over-representedAKMaine: not over-representedMEVermont: not over-representedVTNew Hampshire: not over-representedNHWashington: not over-representedWAIdaho: not over-representedIDMontana: not over-representedMTNorth Dakota: not over-representedNDMinnesota: not over-representedMNIllinois: not over-representedILWisconsin: not over-representedWIMichigan: not over-representedMINew York: 1.7× the national rateNYOregon: not over-representedORNevada: not over-representedNVWyoming: not over-representedWYSouth Dakota: not over-representedSDIowa: not over-representedIAIndiana: not over-representedINOhio: not over-representedOHPennsylvania: not over-representedPANew Jersey: 1.7× the national rateNJConnecticut: not over-representedCTRhode Island: not over-representedRICalifornia: not over-representedCAUtah: not over-representedUTColorado: not over-representedCONebraska: not over-representedNEMissouri: not over-representedMOKentucky: not over-representedKYWest Virginia: not over-representedWVVirginia: not over-representedVAMaryland: 2.2× the national rateMDDelaware: not over-representedDEMassachusetts: not over-representedMAArizona: not over-representedAZNew Mexico: not over-representedNMKansas: not over-representedKSArkansas: not over-representedARTennessee: not over-representedTNNorth Carolina: not over-representedNCSouth Carolina: not over-representedSCDistrict of Columbia: 2.5× the national rateDCOklahoma: not over-representedOKLouisiana: not over-representedLAMississippi: not over-representedMSAlabama: not over-representedALGeorgia: not over-representedGAHawaii: not over-representedHITexas: not over-representedTXFlorida: 1.8× the national rateFL
Same as national3× or more
Location quotient, 2016–2025. Shaded states use the name more than the country does, relative to their own births. Exact figures are in the table below.
States where Amy is over-represented, 2016–2025. The location quotient compares the state's share of the name with the national share.
StateBirthsvs national rate
District of Columbia 68 2.5×
Maryland 457 2.2×
Florida 1,382 1.8×
New Jersey 556 1.7×
New York 1,255 1.7×

Amy in England and Wales

ONS recorded 117 births named Amy in 2025, ranking it #366. That is 30% lower than five years earlier.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Counts below three are suppressed by ONS.

Where the name 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”).

Etymology summarised from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0. Wiktionary entry.

Notable people named Amy

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
NameKnown forYearsEditions
Amy Winehouse English singer-songwriter 1983–2011 129
Amy Adams American actress 1974 98
Amy Lee American singer-songwriter and musician 1981 68
Amy Poehler American actress 1971 67
Amy Macdonald Scottish singer-songwriter 1987 61
Amy Acker American actress 1976 54
Amy Johnson pioneering English aviator 1903–1941 52
Amy Coney Barrett American lawyer and jurist 1972 51
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The sharpest rise. Births under this name jumped from 611 in 1948 to 984 in 1949 — 1.6 times over in a single year.

Birth records contain the rise and nothing about its cause. This site does not supply one.

People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

Names similar to Amy

Matched by sound and spelling inside this dataset, then ordered by total recorded births. This is not a claim about shared etymology.

Same feel, less common

The same matches, limited to names given at most half as often as Amy was in 2025.

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