Meaning not yet researched.
Amy: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,200 in 2025. Its best rank was #2 in 1976.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2 in 1976; #257 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Amy in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#257 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1976, at #2.
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Amy: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,200 girls in 2025. Peak: #2 in 1976 · most girls in one year: 32,254 (1975).
In 2025, 1,200 US girls were named Amy, making it the 257th most common girls’ name of the year, down 30 places from #227 in 2024. That is 149 fewer than the 1,349 girls named Amy in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2, reached in 1976. The most girls given the name in a single year was 32,254, in 1975. For comparison, it was #158 in 2015 and #218 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Amy in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 167 babies with the name. In all, 703,484 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 269,765 babies named Amy.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 14,940 US girls were named Amy; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 1,846. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,339 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Amy ranked highest in Maryland in 2025, at #136 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Ana (111,960 babies since 1880), Aimee (54,763 babies since 1880), Amie (21,648 babies since 1880) and Ami (8,100 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ammy, Amey and Any are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch and Swedish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Ammy (1,316), Amey (904), Any (669), Amye (651), Ahmya (613), Ame (385), Aimy (268), Aimi (213), Amea (196), Ammi (141), Aamya (132), Amei (116), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Amy in the open dataset we use.
Amy is listed as a nickname for Amelia.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 15 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland | 34 | #136 | #79 |
| New York | 93 | #172 | #103 |
| Florida | 100 | #174 | #147 |
| California | 181 | #180 | #78 |
| Arizona | 35 | #189 | #182 |
| Nevada | 13 | #196 | #257 |
| Georgia | 50 | #211 | #178 |
| New Jersey | 37 | #222 | #94 |
| Texas | 143 | #243 | #125 |
| Nebraska | 9 | #246 | #261 |
| Virginia | 33 | #247 | #142 |
| Utah | 18 | #250 | #227 |
| Colorado | 25 | #256 | #175 |
| Indiana | 26 | #270 | #267 |
| Massachusetts | 21 | #274 | #161 |
| Kentucky | 15 | #286 | #293 |
| North Carolina | 38 | #291 | #157 |
| Ohio | 37 | #296 | #264 |
| Wisconsin | 18 | #297 | #305 |
| Connecticut | 10 | #298 | #156 |
| Iowa | 11 | #302 | #416 |
| Idaho | 7 | #312 | #218 |
| Illinois | 34 | #313 | #179 |
| Kansas | 10 | #325 | #234 |
| Minnesota | 17 | #331 | #425 |
| South Carolina | 15 | #333 | #341 |
| Oklahoma | 12 | #342 | #214 |
| Washington | 21 | #344 | #179 |
| Missouri | 17 | #352 | #420 |
| Arkansas | 7 | #429 | #317 |
| Louisiana | 10 | #430 | #281 |
| Pennsylvania | 25 | #431 | #291 |
| Tennessee | 18 | #434 | #261 |
| Oregon | 8 | #434 | #423 |
| Alabama | 11 | #439 | #244 |
| Michigan | 14 | #557 | #481 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,200 | #257 | — | — |
| 2024 | 1,349 | #227 | 7 | #9,963 |
| 2023 | 1,493 | #199 | — | — |
| 2022 | 1,415 | #206 | — | — |
| 2021 | 1,565 | #189 | — | — |
| 2020 | 1,340 | #215 | — | — |
| 2019 | 1,481 | #204 | — | — |
| 2018 | 1,511 | #204 | — | — |
| 2017 | 1,740 | #174 | — | — |
| 2016 | 1,846 | #176 | — | — |
| 2015 | 2,043 | #158 | — | — |
| 2014 | 2,193 | #148 | 5 | #12,215 |
| 2013 | 2,239 | #139 | — | — |
| 2012 | 2,238 | #145 | — | — |
| 2011 | 2,191 | #143 | 5 | #12,389 |
| 2010 | 2,283 | #136 | — | — |
| 2009 | 2,484 | #130 | 6 | #11,073 |
| 2008 | 2,541 | #133 | 10 | #7,719 |
| 2007 | 2,829 | #119 | — | — |
| 2006 | 2,747 | #128 | — | — |
| 2005 | 2,957 | #111 | 10 | #7,128 |
| 2004 | 3,116 | #106 | 11 | #6,549 |
| 2003 | 2,880 | #120 | 8 | #7,883 |
| 2002 | 3,095 | #110 | 7 | #8,500 |
| 2001 | 2,938 | #114 | 6 | #9,301 |
| 2000 | 3,173 | #105 | 5 | #10,436 |
| 1999 | 3,207 | #105 | 5 | #9,986 |
| 1998 | 3,485 | #96 | 6 | #8,523 |
| 1997 | 3,691 | #92 | 7 | #7,313 |
| 1996 | 4,067 | #88 | 9 | #6,001 |
| 1995 | 4,528 | #75 | 6 | #7,830 |
| 1994 | 4,691 | #77 | 9 | #5,887 |
| 1993 | 5,420 | #65 | 12 | #4,709 |
| 1992 | 6,340 | #51 | 16 | #3,753 |
| 1991 | 7,275 | #43 | 18 | #3,334 |
| 1990 | 8,463 | #38 | 27 | #2,490 |
| 1989 | 8,899 | #35 | 27 | #2,417 |
| 1988 | 10,034 | #29 | 40 | #1,734 |
| 1987 | 11,786 | #24 | 51 | #1,425 |
| 1986 | 13,452 | #22 | 59 | #1,256 |
| 1985 | 14,429 | #20 | 49 | #1,390 |
| 1984 | 15,988 | #13 | 66 | #1,111 |
| 1983 | 17,097 | #12 | 57 | #1,205 |
| 1982 | 18,799 | #10 | 53 | #1,278 |
| 1981 | 20,345 | #6 | 63 | #1,154 |
| 1980 | 19,833 | #8 | 60 | #1,177 |
| 1979 | 21,609 | #5 | 64 | #1,116 |
| 1978 | 23,213 | #4 | 61 | #1,121 |
| 1977 | 26,729 | #3 | 74 | #998 |
| 1976 | 31,339 | #2 | 94 | #860 |
| 1975 | 32,254 | #2 | 89 | #879 |
| 1974 | 29,566 | #2 | 93 | #834 |
| 1973 | 26,962 | #2 | 86 | #853 |
| 1972 | 25,873 | #5 | 72 | #952 |
| 1971 | 26,237 | #5 | 75 | #941 |
| 1970 | 25,212 | #5 | 63 | #1,023 |
| 1969 | 21,464 | #6 | 67 | #931 |
| 1968 | 17,090 | #13 | 45 | #1,119 |
| 1967 | 16,122 | #12 | 33 | #1,314 |
| 1966 | 12,998 | #30 | 32 | #1,346 |
| 1965 | 11,530 | #35 | 22 | #1,670 |
| 1964 | 9,576 | #44 | 28 | #1,490 |
| 1963 | 8,227 | #54 | 12 | #2,421 |
| 1962 | 7,185 | #61 | 19 | #1,853 |
| 1961 | 6,610 | #69 | 18 | #1,951 |
| 1960 | 5,973 | #77 | 11 | #2,539 |
| 1959 | 5,580 | #85 | 10 | #2,668 |
| 1958 | 4,823 | #97 | 11 | #2,509 |
| 1957 | 4,081 | #114 | 7 | #3,265 |
| 1956 | 3,546 | #122 | — | — |
| 1955 | 3,192 | #134 | 7 | #3,210 |
| 1954 | 2,676 | #139 | 8 | #2,951 |
| 1953 | 2,306 | #152 | 5 | #3,817 |
| 1952 | 1,750 | #175 | — | — |
| 1951 | 1,445 | #200 | — | — |
| 1950 | 1,184 | #218 | — | — |
| 1949 | 984 | #237 | — | — |
| 1948 | 611 | #310 | — | — |
| 1947 | 577 | #328 | — | — |
| 1946 | 520 | #328 | — | — |
| 1945 | 439 | #328 | — | — |
| 1944 | 447 | #319 | — | — |
| 1943 | 463 | #327 | 5 | #3,559 |
| 1942 | 473 | #319 | — | — |
| 1941 | 424 | #320 | — | — |
| 1940 | 390 | #321 | — | — |
| 1939 | 364 | #329 | — | — |
| 1938 | 354 | #338 | — | — |
| 1937 | 326 | #355 | 6 | #3,188 |
| 1936 | 334 | #342 | — | — |
| 1935 | 325 | #355 | — | — |
| 1934 | 322 | #351 | — | — |
| 1933 | 303 | #364 | — | — |
| 1932 | 341 | #343 | — | — |
| 1931 | 347 | #342 | — | — |
| 1930 | 386 | #332 | — | — |
| 1929 | 343 | #352 | — | — |
| 1928 | 366 | #355 | 5 | #4,175 |
| 1927 | 446 | #316 | — | — |
| 1926 | 494 | #300 | — | — |
| 1925 | 560 | #281 | — | — |
| 1924 | 604 | #266 | — | — |
| 1923 | 596 | #263 | — | — |
| 1922 | 612 | #263 | — | — |
| 1921 | 619 | #267 | 6 | #3,887 |
| 1920 | 624 | #263 | — | — |
| 1919 | 609 | #258 | — | — |
| 1918 | 573 | #264 | — | — |
| 1917 | 610 | #253 | — | — |
| 1916 | 595 | #248 | — | — |
| 1915 | 624 | #239 | — | — |
| 1914 | 472 | #244 | — | — |
| 1913 | 387 | #247 | — | — |
| 1912 | 371 | #235 | — | — |
| 1911 | 296 | #230 | 5 | #1,750 |
| 1910 | 287 | #225 | — | — |
| 1909 | 244 | #229 | — | — |
| 1908 | 245 | #219 | — | — |
| 1907 | 247 | #207 | — | — |
| 1906 | 240 | #198 | — | — |
| 1905 | 269 | #186 | — | — |
| 1904 | 255 | #188 | — | — |
| 1903 | 242 | #188 | — | — |
| 1902 | 255 | #181 | — | — |
| 1901 | 244 | #179 | — | — |
| 1900 | 335 | #165 | — | — |
| 1899 | 281 | #159 | — | — |
| 1898 | 341 | #146 | — | — |
| 1897 | 315 | #148 | — | — |
| 1896 | 320 | #147 | — | — |
| 1895 | 303 | #147 | — | — |
| 1894 | 329 | #132 | — | — |
| 1893 | 281 | #146 | — | — |
| 1892 | 331 | #131 | — | — |
| 1891 | 266 | #135 | — | — |
| 1890 | 275 | #135 | — | — |
| 1889 | 252 | #137 | — | — |
| 1888 | 236 | #140 | — | — |
| 1887 | 251 | #120 | — | — |
| 1886 | 226 | #126 | — | — |
| 1885 | 240 | #112 | — | — |
| 1884 | 205 | #123 | — | — |
| 1883 | 209 | #110 | — | — |
| 1882 | 196 | #111 | — | — |
| 1881 | 145 | #118 | — | — |
| 1880 | 167 | #108 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).