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Amynoun
A female given name from Latin
The Dame Anne Dudley, mentioned in a contemporary record, was Leicester's first wife, the unfortunate Amy Robsart. It may be noticed, in passing, that the name Amy - presuming that it occurs in contemporary manuscripts of authority - is an extremely rare one. It is obvious how easily the name Aime might be read for Anne.
Etymology: Anglicized form of Old French Amee, which was both a nickname and a form of the Latin name Amata ("beloved").[1]
Wikipedia
Amy
Amy is a female given name, sometimes short for Amanda, Amelia, Amethyst or Amita. In French, the name is spelled "Aimée", which means "beloved".
Webster Dictionary
Amynoun
a friend
Etymology: [F. ami, fr. L. amicus.]
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
amy
A foreigner serving on board, subject to some prince in friendship with us.
Editors Contribution
amy
from a French word meaning “ beloved”
Submitted by rinat on December 12, 2022
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Surnames Frequency by Census Records
AMY
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Amy is ranked #14570 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Amy surname appeared 2,045 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Amy.
81.2% or 1,661 total occurrences were White.
12.2% or 250 total occurrences were Black.
4.3% or 88 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
1% or 22 total occurrences were Asian.
British National Corpus
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'amy' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2703
Anagrams for amy »
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of amy in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of amy in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of amy in a Sentence
During this time when we face an unprecedented public health crisis, to conduct an election tomorrow would would force poll workers and voters to place themselves at a unacceptable health risk of contracting coronavirus, as Health Director Dr. Amy Acton will order the polls closed as a health emergency. While the polls will be closed tomorrow, Secretary of State Frank LaRose will seek a remedy through the courts to extend voting options so that every voter who wants to vote will be granted that opportunity.
I'm just bigger -- I'm a big girl, one of the best things about meeting Amy Schumer was that she was a little bit bigger.
Once again, Amy Wax has, through Amy Wax thoroughly anti-intellectual and racist comments denigrating Asian immigrants, underscored a fundamental tension around harmful speech at American universities, like all racist generalizations, Wax's recent comments inflict harm by perpetuating stereotypes and placing differential burdens on Asian students, faculty, and staff to carry the weight of this vitriol and bias.
It feels like just a result of this new era of TV that we're all in. People don't want to wait. People don't want to let seasons unfold slowly over the course of eight months, it wasn't at all what we expected but also, the more we thought about it, the more it was like I see the value in that. Amy is co-hosting the Golden Globes again, and the show will launch two days after she hosts the Globes and, as luck would have it, this season happens to be extremely serialized, especially at the beginning, so airing back-to-back is actually kind of cool.
Wastewater is a non-intrusive way to still have that early and reliable information of what's going on in Amy Kirby community.
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- ايميArabic
- amyCzech
- amyDanish
- amyGerman
- amyGreek
- amyEsperanto
- amySpanish
- امیPersian
- AmyFinnish
- amyFrench
- amiIrish
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- amyHungarian
- ամիArmenian
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- amyItalian
- איימיHebrew
- エイミーJapanese
- ಆಮಿKannada
- 에이미Korean
- Sed vestibulumLatin
- amyDutch
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- amyPolish
- amyPortuguese
- amyRomanian
- ЭмиRussian
- amySwedish
- ஆமிTamil
- అమీTelugu
- เอมี่Thai
- amyTurkish
- ЕміUkrainian
- یمیUrdu
- amyVietnamese
- amyYiddish
- 艾米Chinese
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