Amie

Where Amie comes from

The dictionaries list Amie as a given name — a female given name from Latin, a less common spelling of Amy — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Latin
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #679 among girls — 7 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1968
    Amie Wilkinson born
    American mathematician
  3. 1976
    Peak, #224
    1,084 babies named Amie — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1986
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #466.
  5. 2010
    Amie Donald born
    New Zealand dancer and actress
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Latin, a less common spelling of Amy.
Namesakes
  • Amie Wilkinson · American mathematician, born 1968
  • Amie Donald · New Zealand dancer and actress, born 2010
  • Amie Comeaux · American country music singer, 1976–1997
  • Amie Doherty · Irish composer, born 1987
  • Amie Thompson · Australian synchronised swimmer, born 1996

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.