Aimee
Feminine · “beloved”
Aimee is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 54,685 girls against 78 boys since 1880.
Aimee is beloved, in French — the past participle of the verb to love, used as a name. English took the same word centuries earlier and wore it down to Amy.
How old is the name Aimee?
Aimee was already in use when US birth records began in 1880 — it is at least 145 years old. The typical Aimee alive today was born around 1981, making them about 44 years old. About 51,500 people named Aimee are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Aimee most popular?
Aimee peaked in 1976, reaching #123 nationally. Today it ranks #1581, 1,458 places below that high. See the whole 1976 chart.
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Where it comes from
From amare to Aimee
The story of Aimee
Amée was a medieval French given name that English took as Amy in the thirteenth century, and Amy has been in continuous English use since. French kept its own Aimée, and English-speaking countries borrowed it back in the twentieth century when French spellings carried a particular polish. American use of Aimee rose through the 1960s and peaked in the mid-1970s alongside Amy itself.
Meaning
beloved
From the French aimée, the feminine past participle of aimer, 'to love', from the Latin amare. The medieval form Amée gave English Amy. Aimee is the modern French spelling borrowed back, so the two are the same word at different stages.
How the name formed
- amare
- Amée
- Aimée
- Aimee
Related forms: Aimée · Amy · Amada
Pronouncing Aimee
AY-mee
Two syllables, stress on the first, in English. French says eh-MAY with the stress at the end, which is a different sound entirely.
Nicknames for Aimee
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
- 1880
- Most girls named
- 19752,031 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #123reached in 1976
- Change vs 2022
- −10.7%133 in 2025, from 149
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.
Aimee in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Aimée in French — same name
- Amy in English — related form
- Amada in Spanish — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, New York.
Aimees among us
people named Aimee are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 12,085 born in 2025 was named Aimee
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Aimee
- #1581
- Aimee on the 2025 chart
- #806
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Aimee went to 133 girls in 2025, but Aime 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 — 775 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 12,085 for Aimee 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 Gayle test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Aimee's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Gayle climbed just as high around 1951, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Gayle's path sketches the road Aimee is walking now.
Aimee 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
Where Aimee is headed
Aimee should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
High confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Aimee beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Aimee 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 transparent, warm and undisputed.
- It is the genuine French spelling rather than an English elaboration.
- Amy is available as the plain English form of the same word.
- The French and English pronunciations are far apart.
- Amy is far commoner in English and will often be assumed.
- It is closely dated to the 1970s in American records.
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Frequently asked
- How many Aimees are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 51,500 people named Aimee are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Aimee?
- Aimee is the most-used spelling in US records — 133 of the 154 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Aime and Aymee.
- How popular is the name Aimee in 2025?
- Aimee ranks #1581 among US girl names in 2025, with 133 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Aimee?
- About 1 in every 12,085 US girls born in 2025 was named Aimee — 133 in all.
- Will my child share the name Aimee with classmates?
- Aimee will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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