Aimee
Aimee is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 148 births. Its best rank was 123rd, in 1976.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1480.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 19772,288 births
- Best rank
- #123in 1976
- Since 1880
- 54,551people given the name
The story in the numbers
54,551 girls have been named Aimee in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1977, with 2,288 births — 0.15% of all girls recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1981, and the 1970s alone account for 36%. It has spent 87 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Aimee | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 143 | |
| 1890s | 168 | |
| 1900s | 143 | |
| 1910s | 259 | |
| 1920s | 317 | |
| 1930s | 140 | |
| 1940s | 223 | |
| 1950s | 976 | |
| 1960s | 3,811 | |
| 1970s | 19,407 | |
| 1980s | 13,186 | |
| 1990s | 7,832 | |
| 2000s | 4,105 | |
| 2010s | 3,068 | |
| 2020s | 773 |
In 1977, its biggest year
Aimee was the 127th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1977 were Jennifer, Melissa, Amy, Jessica and Heather. See all of 1977.
Names that rose and fell with Aimee
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Amieepeak 1973
- Ameepeak 1975
- Amipeak 1975
- Shawnnapeak 1977
- Jamillahpeak 1975
- Shannonpeak 1970
- Keishapeak 1977
- Tarapeak 1972
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.