Aime
Feminine · “French "beloved”
Aime is given to both — 1,850 girls and 474 boys since 1880. See other names given to both
Aime is Aimée with its accent lost, and in French that loss changes the grammar. Aimé is the masculine past participle of aimer, to love — beloved, said of a man. Aimée is the feminine. Dropping the accent and the second e leaves a form that French would read as masculine, which is not what any American family intends.
How old is the name Aime?
Aime first appears in US birth records in 1961 — 64 years ago. The typical Aime alive today was born around 1995, making them about 30 years old. About 1,800 people named Aime are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Aime most popular?
Aime peaked in 1994, reaching #1357 nationally. Today it ranks #7133, 5,776 places below that high. See the whole 1994 chart.
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Where it comes from
From amata to Aime
The story of Aime
Amy is the older English form — it entered Middle English from Old French Amee and has been in use since the thirteenth century. Aimée is the modern French spelling and re-entered American use in the twentieth century as a separate name, peaking in the 1970s. Accents are stripped by most American record systems, so Aimée becomes Aimee and then Aime, and each stage loses information: the accent marked the stress, and the second e marked the sex. The 1994 peak belongs to the most reduced form.
Meaning
French "beloved"
From the past participle of aimer, to love, from Latin amare. Aimée is the feminine form. The name passed into English as Amy in the Middle Ages, which is why Amy and Aimee are the same name at different stages. The etymology is entirely settled; only the spelling is unstable.
How the name formed
- amata
- Amee
- Amy
- Aimée
- Aime
Related forms: Aimée · Amy · Amada · Amata
Pronouncing Aime
ay-MAY
Two syllables with the stress on the second in French. Americans usually say AY-mee, which turns it into Amy and moves the stress. Without the accent the spelling gives no instruction at all, so both are common.
Nicknames for Aime
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1961
- Most girls named
- 1994123 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1357reached in 1994
- Change vs 2024
- −28.6%15 in 2025, from 21
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Aime in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Aimée in French — same name
- Amy in English — same name
- Amada in Spanish — same name
- Amata in Italian — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas.
Aimes among us
people named Aime are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 107,151 born in 2025 was named Aime
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Aime
- #7133
- Aime on the 2025 chart
- #806
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Aime went to 15 girls in 2025, but Aimee and Aymee are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 154, which makes it the 806th most-given girls’ name of the year — 6,327 places above the chart.
- Aimee133
- Aime15
- Aymee6
About 1 girl in 10,437 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 107,151 for Aime itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Melrose test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Aime's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Melrose climbed just as high around 1926, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Melrose's path sketches the road Aime is walking now.
Aime sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Aime beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Aime in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is settled, brief and entirely positive.
- It connects to Amy, one of the oldest continuously used English names.
- It is short and soft with no difficult sounds.
- The accentless spelling reads as masculine in French.
- The stress placement is unresolved in American English.
- Amy, Aimee, Aimée and Aime are all in use and all sound different from each other.
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Frequently asked
- How many Aimes are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,800 people named Aime are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Aime?
- Aime is one of 3 recorded spellings. Aimee is the more common one — 133 births in 2025 against 15 for Aime.
- How popular is the name Aime in 2025?
- Aime ranks #7133 among US girl names in 2025, with 15 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Aime?
- About 1 in every 107,151 US girls born in 2025 was named Aime — 15 in all.
- Will my child share the name Aime with classmates?
- Aime will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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