Amy Girl
How popular is Amy?
#257 girl name in 2025
1,200 baby girls were named Amy in the US in 2025, making it the 257th most popular girl name.
Amy popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #257 for girls (▼ 30 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 1,200 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-41% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #158 in 2015, #215 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1975 (32,254 girls) |
| Highest rank | #2 in 1973 (4 years at that rank) |
| First recorded | 1880 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.9% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Amy counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Amy family of names ranked #232 for girls in 2025 (#203 the year before), with 1,454 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Amy | 1,200 | 83% |
| Aimee | 133 | 9% |
| Ami | 29 | 2% |
| Amie | 30 | 2% |
| Ammy | 40 | 3% |
| Aimi | 6 | 0% |
| Amee | 10 | 1% |
| Aymee | 6 | 0% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Amy is most popular
Babies named Amy per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- District of Columbia: 2.4 per 1,000 (29 girls)
- Maryland: 2.2 per 1,000 (238 girls)
- Florida: 1.7 per 1,000 (720 girls)
- New Jersey: 1.5 per 1,000 (279 girls)
- New York: 1.4 per 1,000 (546 girls)
Amy by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 2,127 | #108 |
| 1890s | 3,042 | #131 |
| 1900s | 2,576 | #165 |
| 1910s | 4,824 | #225 |
| 1920s | 5,264 | #263 |
| 1930s | 3,402 | #329 |
| 1940s | 5,328 | #237 |
| 1950s | 30,583 | #85 |
| 1960s | 116,775 | #6 |
| 1970s | 268,994 | #2 |
| 1980s | 150,662 | #6 |
| 1990s | 51,167 | #38 |
| 2000s | 28,760 | #105 |
| 2010s | 19,765 | #136 |
| 2020s | 8,362 | #189 |
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Questions
- Is Amy a boy or girl name?
- Amy is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Amy were girls.
- How popular is the name Amy?
- 1,200 baby girls were named Amy in the US in 2025, making it the 257th most popular girl name.
- When was Amy most popular?
- Amy peaked in 1975, when 32,254 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #2, held for 4 years starting in 1973.
- How many people are named Amy?
- 703,484 babies have been named Amy in the US since 1880. We estimate about 645,125 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 50.
- Where is Amy most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Amy was most common in District of Columbia, at 2.4 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.