Amy
Meaning of Amy
Amy, pronounced AY-mee, is a pocket-sized sparkler of a name—bright, quick, impossible to miss. She springs from the French Aimée and the Latin amatus, so love drums at her core like a tiny red corazón. Over the decades she’s twirled through the charts, pulling salsa spins in the sizzling ’70s top ten and still shimmying with charm today. Stories cling to her: Amy March sketching dreams in Little Women, Amy Winehouse belting soul under London rain, even every girl-next-door who knows how to turn homework into a rooftop fiesta. Each tale paints her friendly, fearless, and fun to spell—three letters, two beats, one grin. Parents choose her when they want a name that hugs, high-fives, and never trips the tongue. Amy waves first, shares snacks, and colors the day mango-bright. She is pure cariño wrapped in two syllables—small, sweet, unstoppable.
Pronunciation
American English
- Pronunced as AY-mee (/ˈeɪmi/)
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Notable People Named Amy
| Amy Winehouse was an English singer and songwriter whose distinctive contralto and blend of jazz, soul, and rhythm and blues made her a cultural icon, selling over 30 million records and winning six Grammy Awards. |
| Amy Adams is an acclaimed American actress known for comedy and drama, with two Golden Globes, six Academy Award nominations, and three appearances among the world's highest paid actresses. |
| Amy Beach was a pioneering American composer and pianist whose 1896 Gaelic Symphony was the first by an American woman and she earned acclaim performing her own music internationally. |
| Amy Johnson was a pioneering English aviator and the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia. |
| Amy Tan is an American author best known for The Joy Luck Club, which became a 1993 film, and for other novels, short stories, books for children, and a memoir. |
| Amy Goldin was an American art critic who from 1965 to 1978 wrote nearly 200 pieces on then unconventional subjects like folk, African American, graffiti, and Islamic art, notably as a contributing editor at Art in America. |
| Amy Nadya Finkelstein is an American economist, an MIT professor, and a co-leader at NBER and J-PAL North America. |
| Amy Morton is an American actress and director, a two time Tony nominee celebrated for theater, known for films like Up in the Air and for playing Sergeant Trudy Platt on the NBC series Chicago PD. |
| Amy Rosemond - Amy D. Rosemond is an American aquatic ecologist and biogeochemist at the University of Georgia who studies how global change affects freshwater ecosystems and is an Ecological Society of America fellow and past president of the Society for Freshwater Science. |
| Amy Beth Bloom is an American writer and psychotherapist, a creative writing professor at Wesleyan University, and a nominee for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. |
| Amy Nicole Langville is an American mathematician and operations researcher noted for work on PageRank and basketball bracketology and is a former star player now a professor at the College of Charleston. |
| Amy Rigby is an American singer-songwriter known for acclaimed solo albums, a long touring career and a duo with her husband Wreckless Eric, and for the memoir Girl to City. |
| Amy Hanaialii Gilliom is an American vocalist and songwriter. |
