Popularity of the name Amy, 1880–2025

Amy was at its most popular in 1975, when 32,254 girls were given the name: about 1 in 45 girls born in the U.S. that year, ranking #2. In 2025, 1,200 girls were named Amy, ranking #257. In all, Social Security counts 701,631 girls named Amy since 1880. Social Security’s records also list 1,853 boys named Amy.

Peak year

1975

Rank in 1975

#2

Babies in 1975

32,254

Rank in 2025

#257

Total since 1880

701,631

Where it stands now

In the past decade the name slipped from #158 in 2015 to #257 in 2025: 2,043 girls got it in 2015, and 1,200 in 2025.

Decade by decade

Its best decade was the 1970s, when 268,994 girls were named Amy, #2 for the decade. It ranked #120 in the 1880s and #209 in the 2020s so far.

Every 20 years in the records: 167 in 1880 (#108), 335 in 1900 (#165), 624 in 1920 (#263), 390 in 1940 (#321), 5,973 in 1960 (#77), 19,833 in 1980 (#8), 3,173 in 2000 (#105) and 1,340 in 2020 (#215).

Highs and lows

The most girls given the name in a single year was 32,254, in 1975. Its best rank in any year was #2, first reached in 1973.

Every year

The table lists every year from 1880 to 2025 in which Social Security recorded at least 5 girls named Amy, with the name’s rank that year.

How these numbers are counted

Social Security publishes, for every year since 1880, how many babies of each sex were given each name, counting any name given to at least 5. A name’s rank is its place that year among names for the same sex, by number of babies. Names with the same count share a rank here, while Social Security’s own lists break ties alphabetically, so a rank can differ from theirs by a place or two. A name’s share is the number of babies given it divided by all babies of that sex in the data that year, and its peak is the year that share was highest. Shares rather than counts set the peak, because far more babies were born in some years than others: counting babies alone would pull nearly every name’s peak toward the 1946–1964 baby boom.

Source: the U.S. Social Security Administration’s national baby name data, from Social Security card applications for babies born in the U.S. A name is left out of a year when fewer than 5 babies of one sex got it, and counts before about 1937 are incomplete, because many people born then never applied for a card. See how Baby Boom builds its data. Figures may contain errors.