Amee
Feminine · “Latin amata”
The -ee at the end of employee, divorcee, refugee and fiancee is a French past participle. English borrowed it attached to those words and then made it productive on its own, so a payee is the one paid and an addressee the one addressed. A foreign ending became an English grammatical tool.
How old is the name Amee?
Amee first appears in US birth records in 1956 — 69 years ago. The typical Amee alive today was born around 1981, making them about 44 years old. About 1,600 people named Amee are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Amee most popular?
Amee peaked in 1975, reaching #1269 nationally. Today it ranks #9457, 8,188 places below that high. See the whole 1975 chart.
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Where it comes from
From amata to Amee
The story of Amee
French past participles ending in -e came into English attached to nouns describing a person something had been done to: an employe was one who had been employed, a divorce one who had been divorced, a refugie one who had taken refuge, a fiance one who had been promised. English kept the ending, dropped the accent, and then began forming new words with it on native and Latin stems: payee, addressee, trainee, appointee, nominee, escapee, standee. The suffix acquired a clear grammatical meaning it does not have in French, marking the recipient of an action against the -er that marks the doer, so employer and employee, payer and payee. Amy sits at the head of that borrowing, an ordinary French participle that reached England as a name in the twelfth century, long before the grammatical suffix followed.
Meaning
Latin amata, beloved
Amee is a spelling of Amy, from Old French Amee, the feminine past participle of amer, to love, from Latin amata, beloved. The name therefore means loved rather than loving. The modern French form is Aimee. The doubled e in this spelling writes the same sound as the y in Amy. The peak is 1975.
How the name formed
- amata
- Amee
- Amy
Related forms: Aimee · Amy · Amada
Pronouncing Amee
AY-mee
Two syllables, stress on the first. Amee, Amy and Aimee are homophones in English; French says Aimee eh-MAY with the stress at the end.
Nicknames for Amee
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
- 1956
- Most girls named
- 197687 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1269reached in 1975
- Change vs 2024
- +66.7%10 in 2025, from 6
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.
Amee in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Aimee in French — same name
- Amy in English — spelling variant
- Amada in Spanish — same name
Amees among us
people named Amee are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 160,727 born in 2025 was named Amee
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Amee
- #9457
- Amee on the 2025 chart
- #944
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Amee went to 10 girls in 2025, but Ame is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 16, which makes it the 944th most-given girls’ name of the year — 8,513 places above the chart.
- Amee10
- Ame6
About 1 girl in 100,454 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 160,727 for Amee 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 Virgina test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Amee's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Virgina climbed just as high around 1922, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Virgina's path sketches the road Amee is walking now.
Amee 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
Amee beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Amee in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Two syllables and four letters, impossible to mispronounce.
- The meaning is clear and warm.
- Amy is available as the standard spelling.
- Amy is overwhelmingly the standard spelling.
- Aimee is the correct French form.
- The doubled e reads as a respelling.
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Frequently asked
- How many Amees are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,600 people named Amee are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Amee?
- Amee is the most-used spelling in US records — 10 of the 16 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Ame.
- How popular is the name Amee in 2025?
- Amee ranks #9457 among US girl names in 2025, with 10 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Amee?
- About 1 in every 160,727 US girls born in 2025 was named Amee — 10 in all.
- Will my child share the name Amee with classmates?
- Amee will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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