How common is the name Amy?

625,127 people in the United States have the first name Amy, about 1 in 483. It ranks #65 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

AMY

#65

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
625,127
About
1 in 483
This common or more
24.2%
Who bears it

Of the 625,127 people named Amy, 84.1% reported their origin as White, 7.2% as Hispanic or Latino and 4.4% as Asian or Pacific Islander. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Amy peaked in 1975, when 32,343 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
1975
Births that year
32,343
In 2025*
1,200 ▼96%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 703,484 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Amy by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #12. The largest share of babies named Amy, 52.5%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1880s#2022,127
1890s#2053,042
1900s#2832,576
1910s#4344,829
1920s#5315,275
1930s#6383,408
1940s#5775,333
1950s#24830,631
1960s#69117,062
1970s#12269,765
1980s#43151,187
1990s#14151,282
2000s#25528,823
2010s#36919,775
2020s#4778,369
Before 19010.8%
Greatest Generation 1901–271.7%
Silent Generation 1928–451%
Baby boom 1946–6410.1%
Generation X 1965–8052.5%
Millennials 1981–9624.5%
Generation Z 1997–126.5%
2013 and later3%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Amy is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Amy has been most common in Wisconsin (1.5×), Vermont (1.4×), and Minnesota (1.4×), and least common in Mississippi (0.65×).

692,211 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Amy

#63 Donna · 635,065#64 George · 631,924#66 Deborah · 622,217#67 Edward · 616,122

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Amy, most common first.

#2,623 Ami · 9,067#2,981 Amya · 7,536#7,838 Ama · 1,900#11,736 Ammy · 1,080#12,003 Am · 1,051#12,238 Amey · 1,023#17,037 Ame · 654#17,668 Amye · 619

Also a last name

As a last name, Amy ranks #14,681 of 156,621, with 1,944 people. See Amy as a last name

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