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The AMY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,040 13641 0.001 8
United States (1880 census) 580 8562 0.001 12
Change since 1880 +1460 -5079 0 -4
Other Countries
Australia 176 8491 0.001 11
United Kingdom 217 15670 0 5
Top States for AMY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 196 11503 0.001 6
Texas 188 8565 0.001 9
Louisiana 179 2852 0.004 40
Michigan 141 7770 0.001 14
Pennsylvania 133 9904 0.001 11
Top States for AMY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Louisiana 179 2852 0.004 40
South Dakota 18 6305 0.002 24
Idaho 30 5406 0.002 23
Minnesota 96 6827 0.002 20
Michigan 141 7770 0.001 14

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called AMY live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called AMY represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called AMY in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a AMY by picking someone at random in Louisiana than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of AMY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the AMY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the AMY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of AMY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 195 9.56
White (Hispanic) 82 4.02
Mixed Race 31 1.52
Asian/Pacific 23 1.13
Native American/Alaskan 19 0.93
White (Caucasian) 1,690 82.84

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the AMY surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of AMY in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of AMY.

Similar names to AMY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as AMY.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for AMY

The following words are slight variants of AMY that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.