Amy-Lee

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Amy-Lee: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Amy-Lee: Recorded since 1996, it reached #238 in 2004, and it was last ranked in 2016.

3registrars recorded it
22times a registrar ranked it
21years from first to last
#238highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2016

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2683
1997	#2738
1998	#3848
2000	#3247
2003	#3099
2005	#2084
2006	#2781
2007	#1573
2008	#2150
2009	#2326
2010	#2589
2011	#3185
2012	#2717
2014	#4684
2016	#4096

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 15 of the 21 years from 1996 to 2016.

In 2009: #364 among girls in Northern Ireland, #2326 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2016 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2683 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1997–2009
Highest recorded position: #238 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2004 (recorded 1997–2009).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2016
Most recently recorded at #4096 among girls in England and Wales, in 2016.
England and Wales · Girls

Amy-Lee appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 15 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 110 births with the name.

Amy-Lee across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Amy-Lee's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#2683 (1996)	#1573 (2007)	#4096 (2016)	15 of 21	110 (1996–2016)	16 (2007)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#271 (1997)	#238 (2004)	#364 (2009)	6 of 13	27 (1997–2009)	6 (2004)

Amy-Lee by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Amy-Lee in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	13	3 of 10	4
2000sbusiest	63	7 of 10	9
2010s	34	5 of 10	7

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade — the 7 years of it this list covers, averaging 9 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Amy-Lee appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2016. Highest recorded position: #238 in Northern Ireland in 2004.

Amy-Lee's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2016	England and Wales	female	#4096	5	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#4684	4	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2717	9	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#3185	7	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2589	9	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#2326	10	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#2150	11	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1573	16	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#2781	7	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2084	10	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#3099	5	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3247	4	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3848	3	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2738	5	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#2683	5	High	Verified
2009	Northern Ireland	female	#364	4	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	female	#439	3	High	Verified
2007	Northern Ireland	female	#268	6	High	Verified
2006	Northern Ireland	female	#384	3	High	Verified
2004	Northern Ireland	female	#238	6	High	Verified
1997	Northern Ireland	female	#271	5	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#862	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2016, ranked in 16 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #238, first reached in 2004.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 16 births, registered in England and Wales in 2007.

Its record falls into 5 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1997, and 12 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Amy-Louise · #282, 20y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Ariah · #238, 18y
Garth · #240, 15y
Ciaron · #235, 19y
Leland · #234, 20y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Alix · #238, 29y
Bobbie · #238, 30y
Ciarrai · #238, 13y
Erinn · #238, 28y

Amy-Lee was ranked #238 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2004. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Amy-Lee and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Amy-Lee without appearing here.

Amy-Lee moved ahead of

Ellinor Compare
In 2011 they stood at #3185 and #3185 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #2717 and #5876.
Jeanette Compare
In 2004 they stood at #3099 and #2727 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #2084 and #4798.
Lene Compare
In 2004 they stood at #3247 and #1831 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #2084 and #4798.
Lynette Compare
In 2008 they stood at #2781 and #2509 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #2326 and #4564.

Moved ahead of Amy-Lee

Ezra Compare
In 2013 they stood at #2717 and #2969 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #4684 and #1628.
Luca Compare
In 2013 they stood at #2717 and #3285 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #4684 and #2203.
Meabh Compare
In 2013 they stood at #2717 and #5876 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #4684 and #2314.
Hayden Compare
In 2007 they stood at #1573 and #1741 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #2150 and #878.

Moved the opposite way to Amy-Lee

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2016 in England and Wales · Girls, Amy-Lee went from #2683 to #4096 while Ada went from #2683 to #164.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2016 in England and Wales · Girls, Amy-Lee went from #2683 to #4096 while Alma went from #2096 to #529.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2016 in England and Wales · Girls, Amy-Lee went from #2683 to #4096 while Alyssa went from #783 to #198.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2016 in England and Wales · Girls, Amy-Lee went from #2683 to #4096 while Amalie went from #2096 to #703.

Moved the same way as Amy-Lee

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2016 in England and Wales · Girls, Amy-Lee went from #2683 to #4096 and Abigail from #21 to #58.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2016 in England and Wales · Girls, Amy-Lee went from #2683 to #4096 and Aimee from #70 to #400.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2016 in England and Wales · Girls, Amy-Lee went from #2683 to #4096 and Aisling from #440 to #1416.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2016 in England and Wales · Girls, Amy-Lee went from #2683 to #4096 and Alex from #161 to #1416.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2016. Highest recorded position: #238 in Northern Ireland in 2004. Source data last verified 2026-07-22.

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What the data shows

Popularity journey

Amy-Lee across 2 official records

Amy-Lee by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Amy-Lee across 2 official records

Amy-Lee by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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