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Ammie
How to Pronounce Ammie
Pronounced AM-ee /ˈæm.i/High
Meaning: Ammie is an old spelling of Amy, from the Old French amée and Latin amata, 'beloved'; it can also serve as a short form of Amelia (Germanic amal, 'work'). Common in the rural South around 1900, it wears the 'beloved' meaning in a homey double-m form.Medium
Popularity in the U.S. · SSA data
U.S. births per year (Social Security Administration, 1880–present). Pink marker = peak year.
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History & Origin
Ammie is a vintage form of Amy, from the Latin amata, 'beloved,' and at times a short form of Amelia. Popular in the rural South in the early twentieth century, it belongs to the era when warm diminutives were given as full names.
Ammie appears from the eighteen-eighties, with its high point around 1973 at roughly seventy girls a year and a total of a few thousand across a long, thin run into the twenty-twenties. It reads as an antique nickname-name and sits just outside the current Amy-and-Hattie revival.
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What does the name Ammie mean?
Ammie is a form of Amy, from the Latin for 'beloved'; it can also be short for Amelia.
How do you pronounce Ammie?
It's said AM-ee /ˈæm.i/ — two syllables, stress on the first.
Is Ammie a boy or girl name?
Ammie is used as a girl's name.
How popular is Ammie?
Ammie was an uncommon homespun name that had a modest high point in the early nineteen-seventies and has stayed rare.