Amy
Amy is an English feminine given name. It is the English version of the French name Aimée, which means beloved. It was used as a diminutive of the Latin name Amata, a name derived from the passive participle of amare, “to love”. The name has been in use in the Anglosphere since the Middle Ages. It was among the 50 most popular names for girls in England between 1538 and 1700. It was popularized in the 19th century in the Anglosphere by a character in Sir Walter Scott's 1821 novel Kenilworth, which was based on the story of Amy Robsart. Enslaved Black women in the United States prior to the American Civil War were more likely to bear the name than white American women because slave masters often chose their names from literary sources. The name declined in use after 1880 but was revived due to the hit song Once in Love with Amy from the 1948 Broadway musical Where's Charley?. The name peaked in usage in the United States between 1973 and 1976, when it was among the five most popular names for American girls. It remained among the top 250 names for American girls in the early 2020s.
People
A–E
- Amy Acker, American actress
- Amy Vera Ackman, Australian hospital administrator
- Amy Acton, American public health official
- Amy Adams, American actress
- Amy Alcott, American Hall of Fame golfer
- Amy Allen, American songwriter, record producer, and singer
- Amy Alvarez, Filipino politician
- Amy Anderson, American comedian, actress, and writer
- Amy Andrew, New Zealand professional boxer
- Amy Aquino, American actress
- Amy Archer-Gilligan, American serial killer
- Amy Ashwood Garvey, Jamaican Pan-Africanist activist
- Amy T. Austin, Argentine ecologist
- Amy Beach, American composer and pianist
- Amy Wroe Bechtel, American woman who is missing
- Amy Billig, American women who is missing
- Amy Birnbaum, American voice actress
- Amy Maud Bodkin, English classical scholar
- Amy Lynn Bradley, missing American woman
- Amy Braverman, American statistician
- Amy Brenneman, American actress
- Amy Bruckner, American actress and singer
- Amy Callaghan, British politician
- Amy Carlson, American actress
- Amy Carlson, American cult leader
- Amy Carmichael, British missionary to India
- Amy Castle, American actress and internet personality
- Amy Cimorelli, American singer
- Amy Carter, American political activist
- Amy Chan, Hong Kong actress and Cantopop singer
- Amy Chan , player from Hong Kong
- Amy Chen, known as Chen Haoyu, Chinese singer
- Amy Cheng, Singaporean actress
- Amy Cheung, conceptual artist
- Amy Cheung , Hong Kong writer
- Amy Childs, English reality TV star
- Amy Chow, American retired gymnast
- Amy Chua, Chinese-American law professor and writer
- Amy Connolly, American physicist
- Amy Cotton, Canadian judoka
- Amy Coney Barrett, American Supreme Court Associate Justice
- Amy Cuddy, American psychologist
- Amy Cudden, British actress
- Amy Dafler Meaux, American priest
- Amy Dalby, British actress
- Amy Davidson, American actress
- Amy Denson, American basketball player
- Amy Diamond, Swedish singer
- Amy Dowden, Welsh dancer
- Amy Dumas, American singer, retired WWE professional wrestler
F–R
- Amy Fan, Hong Kong–based actress
- Amy Farrington, American actress and model
- Amy Fisher, American criminal and cause célèbre
- Amy Fitzpatrick, Irish girl who is missing
- Amy Flagg, British historian and photographer.
- Amy Garnett, English rugby player
- Amy Gerstler, American poet
- Amy Gillett, Australian rower and cyclist
- Amy Gleason, American healthcare executive
- Amy Goodman, American journalist
- Amy Grant, American Christian contemporary pop singer
- Amy Graves, American physicist and physics educator
- Amy Gutierrez, American sports journalist and writer
- Amy Hargreaves, American actress
- Amy Harvey, Japanese singer and model from the girl group XG
- Amy Heidemann,, American rapper and singer known professionally as Qveen Herby
- Amy Beth Hayes, British actress
- Amy Faye Hayes, American ring announcer and model
- Amy Harris, Australian ballet dancer
- Amy Hastings, track and field athlete
- Amy Heckerling, American film director
- Amy Hempel American writer and journalist
- Amy Hennig, video game director and script writer
- Amy Hill, American actress
- Amy Holland, American pop rock singer
- Amy Horrocks, English pianist and composer
- Amy Huberman, Irish actress
- Amy Hunt, British Olympic sprinter
- Amy Hurlston, British journalist and trade unionist
- Amy Irving, American actress
- Amy Jackson, English actress
- Amy Jackson, Australian footballer
- Amy Johnson, English aviator
- Amy Jo Johnson, American actress, singer-songwriter and musician
- Amy Klobuchar, a United States senator from Minnesota
- Amy Knight, American historian
- Amy Kremenek, American academic administrator
- Amy Kuhn, American politician
- Amy Kwok, former Miss Hong Kong winner and actress based in Hong Kong
- Amy Landecker, American actress
- Amy Lee, American singer-songwriter, pianist and lead singer of Evanescence
- Amy Lee, American musician
- Amy Linden, American music critic
- Amy Lindsay, American actress
- Amy Locane, American actress
- Amy Lowell, American poet
- Amy Malek, American scholar, and sociocultural anthropologist
- Amy Macdonald, British singer-songwriter
- Amy MacDonald, American author
- Amy Madigan, American actress
- Amy Mainzer, American astronomer
- Amy Malbeuf, Canadian-Métis visual artist, educator, and cultural tattoo practitioner
- Amy Manson, Scottish actress
- Amy Matysio, Canadian actress
- Amy McDonald, Scottish football player and coach
- Amy Meisak, Scottish model and beauty pageant titleholder
- Amy Renee Mihaljevic, American child murder victim
- Amy Millan, Canadian singer-songwriter
- Amy Miller, Canadian filmmaker
- Amy Morton, American actress
- Amy Ndiaye, Senegalese politician
- Amy Neighbors, American politician
- Amy Nicholson, American film critic
- Amy Nuttall, British actress and singer
- Amy O'Connor, Irish camogie player
- Amy Odell, American writer and author
- Amy Okonkwo, Nigerian basketball player
- Amy Okuda, Japanese-American actress
- Amy Oliver, British archer
- Amy Olson, American professional golfer
- Amy O'Neill, American actress/performer
- Amy Oppenheimer, American lawyer
- Amy Orben, British experimental psychologist
- Amy Paffrath, American television presenter and actress
- Amy Page, Australian clinical pharmacist
- Amy Palant, American voice actress and singer
- Amy Palmer, American hammer thrower
- Amy Parkinson, Canadian poet
- Amy Parmenter, Australian netball player
- Amy Pascal, American film producer and business executive
- Amy Pearson, English singer-songwriter
- Amy Peikoff, American journalist
- Amy Pemberton, British actress
- Amy Perez, Filipina television presenter
- Amy Perruso, Hawaiian politician
- Amy Phillips, British Comedian and impressionist
- Amy Phillips, American racing cyclist
- Amy Pharaoh, British lawn bowler
- Amy Pieters, Dutch racing cyclist
- Amy Pietz, American actress
- Amy Pirnie, Scottish kickboxer
- Amy Poehler, American comedian and actress
- Amy Polumbo, American musician and pageant winner
- Amy Porter, American flutist and pedagogue
- Amy Post, American activist
- Amy Potomak, Canadian ice hockey player
- Amy Price-Francis, British-Canadian actress
- Amy Prieto, American chemist
- Amy Pritchett, American aerospace engineer
- Amy Proal, American chemist
- Amy Purdy, American actress and athlete
- Amy Pyle, American journalist and media executive
- Amy Ray, American singer-songwriter, half of the Indigo Girls duo
- Amy Porter Rapp, American architect
- Amy Recha, Singaporean footballer
- Amy Redford, American actress, daughter of Robert Redford
- Amy Reed, American author
- Amy Reeder, American comic artist
- Amy Reibman, American electrical engineer
- Amy Reiger, American politician
- Amy Reiley, American aphrodisiac foods authority and author
- Amy Ricard, American actress
- Amy Richards, American activist
- Amy Richau, American writer
- Amy Richlin, American academic
- Amy Ridenour, American conservative think tank founder
- Amy Rider, Japanese-American actress and film director
- Amy Ridge, Australian water polo player
- Amy Ridley, Australian paralympic athlete
- Amy Robach, American television journalist
- Amy Robbins, English actress
- Amy Robinson, American actress and film producer
- Amy Robstart, first wife of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, favourite of Elizabeth
- Amy Rodgers, British association football player
- Amy Rodriguez, American soccer player
- Amy Roloff, American television personality
- Amy Rosenthal, British playwright
- Amy Rosenzweig, American biochemist
- Amy Rudolph, American runner
- Amy Rule, New Zealand rugby player
- Amy Ruley, American basketball player and coach
- Amy Ruman, American racing driver
- Amy Rustomjee, Indian educator
- Amy Rutberg, American actress
- Amy Ryan, American actress
- Amy Ryan, English jockey
S–Z
- Amy Sackville, British writer
- Amy Sadao, American art institution director, writer, juror, and lecturer
- Amy Salerno, American politician
- Amy Sanders, American basketball player
- Amy Sanderson, Scottish suffragette
- Amy Satterthwaite, New Zealand cricketer
- Amy Saunders, British producer, performer, comedian, and curator
- Amy Sawyer, British painter
- Amy Sayer, Australian footballer
- Amy Schatz, American director and producer
- Amy Schneider, American writer and game show contestant
- Amy Scholder, American editor and filmmaker
- Amy Schulman, American businessperson
- Amy Schumer, American comedian and actress
- Amy Schwartz, American professional tennis player and amateur golfer
- Amy Schwartz, American author and illustrator of children's books
- Amy Schwartz Moretti, American violinist
- Amy Scurria, American composer
- Amy Sedaris, American actress, author, and comedian
- Amy Sedgwick, British actress
- Amy Seimetz, American actress, writer, producer, director, and editor
- Amy Segerstedt, Swedish teacher, folk teacher, philanthropist
- Amy Seiwert, American ballet choreographer
- Amy Sène, French-Senegalese hammer thrower
- Amy Serrano, American author and film director
- Amy Sewell, American author and filmmaker
- Amy Shark, Australian musician
- Amy Sharrocks, British artist
- Amy Shearn, American novelist
- Amy Sheehan, Australian freestyle skier
- Amy Sheldon, American politician
- Amy Shelyon, American cognitive psychology researcher and academic administrator
- Amy Sheppard, Australian singer-songwriter
- Amy Sherald, American portrait painter
- Amy Sherman-Palladino, American television writer, director, and producer
- Amy Sherwin, Australian soprano singer
- Amy Shields, American unicyclist
- Amy Shiels, Irish actress
- Amy Shindler, British actress and television writer
- Amy Shuard, English opera singer
- Amy Shuler Goodwin, American politician
- Amy Shuman, American baseball player
- Amy Siemons, Dutch Paralympic athlete
- Amy Sillman, American painter
- Amy Silverman, American author, journalist, and blogger
- Amy Rose Silverman, American real estate developer and philanthropist
- Amy Silverstein, American medical memoirist
- Amy Simon, American planetary scientist
- Amy Sinclair, American politician
- Amy Singer, American historian
- Amy Singer, American psychologist
- Amy Siskind, American activist and writer
- Amy Skieresz, American middle-distance runner
- Amy Skillman, American folklorist
- Amy Skubitz, American immunologist
- Amy Sky, Canadian singer-songwriter, producer, actress, and television host
- Amy Sloan, Canadian actress
- Amy Smith, Australian cricketer
- Amy Smith, British swimmer
- Amy Smith, Australian rules footballer
- Amy Smart, American actress and fashion model
- Amy Snider, Canadian hurdler
- Amy Sloan, Canadian actress
- Amy Soranno, Canadian animal rights activist
- Amy Sohn, American author
- Amy Soranno, Canadian animal rights activist
- Amy Sol, American painter
- Amy Spain, American slave
- Amy Spanger, American actress
- Amy Spangler, American activist
- Amy Speace, American singer-songwriter
- Amy Spencer, English sprinter
- Amy Spurway, Canadian author
- Amy St. Eve, American federal judge
- Amy Stanley, American author and historian
- Amy Dru Stanley, American historian
- Amy Steadman, American soccer player
- Amy Stewart, American author
- Amy Steel, American actress
- Amy Stein, American photographer
- Amy Stephens, American politician and lawyer
- Amy Stoch, American actress
- Amy Studt, British singer-songwriter
- Amy Suehiro, Japanese entomologist
- Amy Sueyoshi, American historian
- Amy Summers, American politician
- Amy Swensen, American field hockey player
- Amy Swonger, American political advisor
- Amy Talkington, American filmmaker, screenwriter, and author
- Amy Tan, American writer
- Amy Tanner, American psychologist
- Amy Taubin, American author and film critic
- Amy Taylor, Australian musician and activist
- Amy Taylor, English professional golfer
- Amy Shira Teitel, Canadian author, popular science writer, historian, and YouTuber
- Amy Tennant, English field hockey player
- Amy Mbacke Thiam, Senegalese sprinter
- Amy Thielen, American chef, food writer, and television personality
- Amy Thiessen, Canadian singer-songwriter
- Amy Thompson, Luxembourgish footballer
- Amy S. Thompson, American linguist
- Amy Thomson, British entrepreneur
- Amy Thomson, American writer
- Amy Timberlake, American author
- Amy Timlin, English boxer
- Amy Tinkler, British gymnast
- Amy Tipton, American actress
- Amy Toensing, American photojournalist
- Amy Tolsky, American actress
- Amy Tong, American judoka
- Amy Toscani, American sculptor
- Amy Totenberg, American judge
- Amy Toungara, Ivorian politician
- Amy Towers, American philanthropist and businesswoman
- Amy Townsend-Small, American university teacher
- Amy Trappey, Taiwanese industrial engineer
- Amy Trask, American lawyer
- Amy Trigg, British actress and writer
- Amy Truesdale, British para taekwondo practitioner
- Amy Tryon, American equestrian eventer
- Amy Tuck, American attorney and politician
- Amy Tucker, American basketball player and coach
- Amy Turner, American rower
- Amy Turner, New Zealand rugby league and union player
- Amy Turner, England international rugby union player
- Amy Uyematsu, Japanese-American poet
- Amy Vachal, American singer-songwriter
- Amy Vachon, American basketball player and coach
- Amy Van Buuren, Dutch tennis player
- Amy Van Dyken, American Olympic champion swimmer
- Amy Van Keeken, Canadian musician
- Amy Van Nostrand, American actress
- Amy Van Singel, American radio host and music journalist
- Amy Vanderbilt, American author and socialite
- Amy Vedder, American ecologist, primatologist, and conservationist
- Amy Veness, British actress
- Amy Vermeulen, Canadian football forward
- Amy Vilela, American politician
- Amy Villarejo, American academic and writer
- Amy Vincent, American cinematographer
- Amy Vine, Australian cricketer
- Amy Viranya Berry, British-Thai beauty queen and model
- Amy Vitale, American model, actress, and wrestling valet
- Amy Voce, English radio broadcaster
- Amy Volk, American politician
- Amy Sue Vruwink, American politician
- Amy Walker, American actress and singer
- Amy Wallace, American writer
- Amy Walter, American political analyst
- Amy Wang, American table tennis player
- Amy Robbins Ware, American author, world court worker, volunteer Red Cross nurse
- Amy Wax, American law professor
- Amy Weber, American model, singer, actress, and former WWE professional wrestler
- Amy Welborn, an American author
- Amy Willerton, English television presenter, model and beauty pageant titleholder
- Amy Williams, British Olympic Skeleton champion
- Amy Winehouse, British singer-songwriter
- Amy Winfrey, American animator
- Amy Witting, Australian writer
- Amy Wong, Hong Kong television drama producer
- Amy Wing-Hann Wong, Canadian visual artist
- Amy Wright, American actress
- Amy Wright, American basketball coach
- Amy Wyss, Swiss-American billionaire businesswoman and philanthropist
- Amy Yamada, Japanese writer
- Amy Yamazaki, British actress
- Amy Yang, South Korean golfer
- Amy Yao, American visual artist
- Amy Yasbeck, American actress
- Amy Yates, Australian cricketer
- Amy Yip, Hong Kong actress
- Amy Youin, Ivorian freestyle wrestler
- Amy Yuratovac, American boxer
- Amy Zegart, American writer and academic
- Amy Ziering, American filmmaker
- Amy Zongo, French athlete