Entry № 580 · French origin

Amy Amy — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ AY-mee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
French
Meaning
"Beloved (peaked #2 in 1973-74; Amy March, Amy Tan, Amy Winehouse)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (French)

A name that means "beloved (peaked #2 in 1973-74; amy march, amy tan, amy winehouse)".

Amy is from the Old French amee ("beloved"), from Latin amare (to love).

Subject of Asif Kapadia's Amy (2015 documentary).

Beloved (peaked #2 in 1973-74; Amy March, Amy Tan, Amy Winehouse) — a French name.

The name in its native script.

Amy
Transliteration
Amy
Pronunciation
/ ˈeɪ.mi /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Amy stands.

Amy does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Amys before her.

Real people
Amy Tan
Chinese-American novelist.
born 1952
Amy Winehouse
British singer.
1983 – 2011
Amy Adams
American actress.
born 1974
In fiction
Amy March
Little Women.
1868

Names connected to Amy.

The number behind Amy.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Amy reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.