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How popular is the name Amy?
Births per year, rank history and how many Amies are alive today.
Amy (female), once a common girls' name, is now an uncommon choice for new babies in England and Wales, ranked 366th in 2025 with 117 given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 1994, when around 7,000 babies were given the name, the 7th most popular that year. Amy's popularity is double-peaked: popular in the early 1900s, having dropped out of the published rankings in between, and stronger still at its peak in the 1990s. Numbers have been falling in recent years. At least 330,000 babies have been named Amy in England and Wales since 1904. Figures before 1996 are estimates. Amy is one spelling of a name also recorded as Aimee; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Amy you are most likely to meet is around 33 years old. Half of all Amies born in England and Wales are between 32 and 60, and there are at least 290,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly a 60% chance that at least one of them will be called Amy.
How many babies are named Amy each year?
Includes all spellings: Amy, Aimee. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Amy spelling rank?
Where does the Aimee spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Amy most popular?
Amy peaked in 1994, when around 7,000 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Amy?
At least 290,000 people named Amy in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Amy?
Most living Amies are between 32 and 60; the most common age is about 33.
Is Amy becoming more or less popular?
Declining: numbers have been falling in recent years.