Amey — unisex name

What the Data Says About Amey

The Social Security Administration has registered 851 babies named Amey between 1886 and 2006, spanning 121 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Amey currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2006. The name reached its historical peak in 1973, when 36 babies received it in a single year. Amey is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 53 additional births since 2001.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Amey performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 260 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Amey shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Amey in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Amey in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 851 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.