Etymology

Amy

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Today it means: A female given name from Latin. Full definition →

Old French Amee
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The story

  1. Old French · derived fromAmee
  2. English todayAmy

Anglicized form of Old French Amee (modern French Aimée), which was both a nickname and a form of the Latin name Amata (“beloved”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.