The story in the numbers

700,417 girls have been named Amy in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1975, with 32,253 births — 2.2% of all girls recorded that year.

The name has all but left use: 1,344 births in 2024, against 32,253 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1976, and the 1970s alone account for 38%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 41 of them in the top 100 and 14 in the top 10.

It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 1,853 boys have also been given it, 0.26% of the total.

Rank among girls, year by year

By decade

Decade

girls named Amy

2,127

3,042

2,576

4,824

5,264

3,402

5,328

30,583

116,776

268,995

150,662

51,169

28,757

19,762

7,150

In 1975, its biggest year

Amy was the 2nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1975 were Jennifer, Amy, Heather, Melissa and Angela. See all of 1975.

Names that rose and fell with Amy

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.