Amy

Anglicized form of Old French Amee (modern French Aimée), which was both a nickname and a form of the Latin name Amata (“beloved”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈeɪ.mi/

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• Rhymes: -eɪmi

Amy (plural Amys)

1. A female given name from Latin.
   • 1886, Hubert Hall, Society in the Elizabethan Age, Kessinger Publishing, published 2003, →ISBN, page 94:

     The Dame Anne Dudley, mentioned in a contemporary record, was Leicester's first wife, the unfortunate Amy Robsart. It may be noticed, in passing, that the name Amy - presuming that it occurs in contemporary manuscripts of authority - is an extremely rare one. It is obvious how easily the name Aime might be read for Anne.

   • 1975, Derek Marlowe, Nightshade, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, page 7:

     As a child, Amy could have been drawn by Millais, if he was inclined - the name Amy is deceptively apt - but though the plumpness remains, not much but some, the ringlets have gone to be replaced by curls of the colour of cinnamon.

   • 1999, Susan Butler, Lawrence Butler, East to the Dawn: The Life of Amelia Earhart., →ISBN, page 5:

     As Amy had been baptized Amelia (but always called Amy) after her mother, now her daughter, too, was baptized Amelia.

   • 2012, Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl, Phoenix, published 2013, →ISBN, page 249:

     When I remained alive, they named me Amy, because it was a regular girl's name, a popular girl's name, a name a thousand other baby girls were given that year, so maybe the gods wouldn't notice this little baby nestled among the others.

   • 2024 April 3, Stephen Breyer, “Stephen Breyer: The Supreme Court I Served On Was Made Up of Friends”, in The New York Times‎^[1], archived from the original on 6 April 2024:

     Recently, the Supreme Court justices Sonia Sotomayor and Amy Coney Barrett spoke together publicly about how members of the court speak civilly to one another while disagreeing, sometimes vigorously, about the law.

   • 2025 February 25, Kaitlan Collins and Tierney Sneed, “White House reveals who DOGE acting administrator is”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     Amy Gleason is the acting administrator of the US DOGE Service, the agency that houses the temporary Department of Government Efficiency, a White House official told CNN on Tuesday.

2. A surname.
   • 1959 October, “Talking of Trains: Landlord hires a diesel”, in Trains Illustrated, page 460:

     [...] Mr. John W. Amy, landlord of the "Cross Keys" at Arnold, Nottingham.

• Aimee
• Aimée
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• Amie
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• Amata

• MYA, May, Mya, Yam, may, mya, yam